Finally Patiala gets its 7th Mayor after three weeks of MC elections
Kanwar Inder Singh/royalpatiala.in News/January 10,2024
Today Patiala gets its 7th Mayor and Aam Adami Party’s first Mayor in Punjab.
The party has elected Kundan Gogia as Mayor, Harinder Kohli as senior deputy mayor and Jagdeep Singh Jagga as deputy mayor of Patiala Municipal Corporation.
The election process is supervised by AAP Punjab president Aman Arora and cabinet minister Barinder Kumar Goyal.
Patiala Urban MLA Ajit Pal Singh Kohli remained conspicuous by his absence.He is also an ex-officio member of the Patiala MC house.
Finally Patiala gets its 7th Mayor after three weeks of MC elections. This is the first time an AAP leader takes charge as the mayor of Patiala. His party had won 43 of the 60 seats in the municipal corporation elections held on December 21. Polling was held on 45 seats as eight seats had already been won by the AAP unopposed. Polling in seven wards was deferred by the state government following the intervention of the Punjab and Haryana high court.
After the election of Mayor, addressing the media in Patiala, party president Aman Arora described the day as historic for the city, emphasising the party’s commitment to development under the leadership of AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. He refereed Gogia as the “Arvind Kejriwal’s Sipahi.”
“When a dedicated volunteer like Kundan Gogia is entrusted with the leadership of a city like Patiala, it shows the faith AAP has in its grassroots members,” said Arora.
