New Delhi, Jan. 21 -- Former Mayor Kishori Pednekar, who won from Ward number 199 in the Mumbai municipal corporation election, has been elected the leader of Shiv Sena UBT corporators on Wednesday. She had defeated Rupal Kusale of the Shiv Sena (Shinde faction).

The Shiv Sena corporators' leaders was choen days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its Mahayuti allies swept the Maharashtra civic elections. They won 25 of 29 municipal corporations, including the prestigious Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), ending Shiv Sena's nearly three-decade dominance over the BMC.

The Mahayuti alliance crossed the majority mark of 114 in the 227-member BMC, winning a total of 118 seats. The BJP emerged as the single largest party with ...