New Delhi, April 30 -- Pravesh Wahi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) councillor from Rohini East, was on Monday elected as the mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). BJP, which also has a majority in the House, also secured the post of deputy mayor and two more seats on the standing committee. Wahi received 156 out of 165 votes, with Hazi Zaraf of the Congress, the only other candidate, securing the other nine votes. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) did not contest the polls. The voting process, which started around 2:10pm, was over in 2 hours -around 4pm. The electoral college for electing the mayor comprises of 274 members - all 250 MCD councillors, 14 MLAs nominated by the Delhi Assembly, seven Lok Sabha MPs, and three Rajya Sabha members from Delhi. Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal, who switched over from the BJP to AAP last week, also turned up to vote. After winning, Wahi said that clearing landfill sites by December will be his priority and he will jump start regular inspections of biomining work at garbage mounds from Thursday. Monika Pant, the BJP councillor from Anand Vihar, was elected deputy mayor as Congress agreed to withdraw citing the results of the mayoral election....