AAP's Rampal is Phagwara mayor

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Rampal Uppal was elected as the mayor of Phagwara municipal corporation on Saturday.

- Navrajdeep Singh

PHAGWARA:

Despite being 14 votes short of the majority mark of 26 in the 51-member House, the AAP managed to elect its mayor with support from the opposition councillors apart from Congress during the mayoral elections held in the presence of former judge of Punjab and Haryana high court justice Harbans Lal (retd).

The AAP got the support of councillors of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and independent councillors during voting with ward number 18 councillor Uppal securing 26 votes. AAP also won the senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor posts.

Tejpal Singh Basra, a councillor from ward number 14, was elected as senior deputy mayor, while ward number 16 councillor Vipin Krishan Sood was elected deputy mayor.

Congress had won 18 seats, while AAP was a distant second with 12 votes.