A day before the first meeting of the Jalandhar Municipal Corporation, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) bolstered its strength after one more councillor joined the party. Davinder Pal Kaur, wife of Simerjit Malik, who won from Ward Number 85 of Jalandhar North joined AAP on Friday evening. Davinder Pal Kaur fought the Jalandhar MC Elections 2024 on BJP's ticket and passed the 'Ward Test' with flying colours. However, it was AAP that emerged out to be the single largest party winning 38 seats in Jalandhar MC Elections.
Thereafter, AAP passed the majority mark of 43 after multiple councillors including from BJP, Congress, and Independent joined the party. Before, Davinder Pal Kaur, AAP had a total of 45 winning councillors. It means AAP has now a total of 46 winning councillors in their fray, and the party is all set to secure all top three posts of Jalandhar MC i.e. Mayor, Senior Deputy Mayor, and Deputy Mayor.
Raj Bir OSD to CM Punjab, Rajwinder Thiara, and Kaku Ahluwalia were present when Davinder Pal Kaur joined the Aam Aadmi Party.
As per sources, AAP Councillor from Ward Number 62, Vaneet Dhir's name is almost finalised for the post of Mayor. Vaneet Dhir was among the top faces of AAP for the Jalandhar MC Elections 2024. He won from Ward Number 62 by more than 4000 votes. The AAP candidate defeated Congress's Sanjeev Dua quite comfortably.
Sources further suggest that Karamjeet Kaur of Ward Number 11 and Malkeet Singh of Ward Number 38 are likely to be elected as Senior Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayor's post respectively.