Daxesh Mavani of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been elected as the mayor of the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) in Gujarat, India. The election took place amid high drama, as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) nominated one of its turncoat corporators for the post. The BJP has 93 corporators in the 120-seat SMC, while the AAP is the only opposition party with 27.
Mawani has roots in Saurashtra while Patil and Tripathi are originally from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, respectively. Patel is from Surat. All the newly-appointed leaders had contested for the first time and won municipal elections in 2021.
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Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], April 25 (ANI/NewsReach): Ahmedabad's Great Gamified Cleanup successfully collected half a ton of waste on International Earth Day, April 22, 2023. The Earth Day Network India, in collaboration with the Gujarat Forest Department, the British Deputy High Commission in Gujarat, and World Around You, marked the day with the theme "Invest in Our Planet" by organizing a cleanup of Thol Bird Sanctuary. The initiative aimed to encourage people to protect the planet and promote sustainability.
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