Mohd Jaafar Mohd Atan took his oath as the sixth mayor of Shah Alam city at a ceremony in Wisma Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam today.

Jaafar, 57, who hails from Malacca, succeeds Mazalan Md Noor whose term of duty ended on March 31, and was transferred to the Public Services Department after his secondment to MBSA since 2007.