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Amid the blowing of conch shells and chants of Har Har Mahadev, newly-elected Varanasi mayor Ashok Tiwari took oath of office and secrecy in Sanskrit in the presence of deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya in a ceremony organised at Rudraksha International Cooperation and Convention Centre here on Friday...
Varanasi divisional commissioner Kaushal Raj Sharma administered the oath to Tiwari..
Thereafter, the mayor administered the oath of office and secrecy to all the 100 newly elected corporators...
While Tiwari and two newly elected corporators took oath in Sanskrit, four Muslim women took oath in Urdu and the remaining corporators took oath in Hindi..
In his speech, the deputy CM also thanked the people of Kashi to have ensured grand victory of the BJPs mayoral candidate Ashok Tiwari and full majority in Varanasi Nagar Nigam in local urban bodies election...
