Mhatre, who got 17 votes, beat his Congress rival Vidyarthi Singh who got nine votes. Mane got 16 votes, defeating Congress's Suresh Koparkar who secured eight. Earlier, it seemed as if the election to the coveted post of the chairman of the Standing Committee would be a showdown between the ruling Sena-BJP alliance, as Standing Committee chairman, BJP's Sardar Tarasingh, had filed papers seeking re-election.