The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has created history in Moga, Punjab. For the first time in the state, the party has got a mayor. The ruling party won the no-confidence motion on Tuesday and Nitika Bhalla of the Congress was removed from the post of mayor. During the house meeting of Municipal Corporation (MC), 48 out of 50 corporators attended the meeting. Aam Aadmi Party’s Moga MLA Dr. Amandeep Kaur Arora says that out of 48 councilors, 41 voted in favor of her party. Bhalla got the support of only six councillors, while two councilors remained absent.
It is reported that out of 41 corporators, 32 are from Aam Aadmi Party and 9 are from other parties who have supported the ruling party. On June 7, 42 councilors signed a no-confidence motion against Bhalla and handed it over to the Joint Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation. Last week, the councilors presented another no-confidence motion against Senior Deputy Mayor Parveen Kumar Sharma, Deputy Mayor Ashok Dhamija and the Finance and Contracts Committee (F&CC).
In the year 2021, elections were held for 50 wards of Moga Municipal Corporation. The Congress got 20 seats, while the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) got 15 seats. Another 10 seats were won by independents, while four by AAP and 1 by BJP. Ten independents supported the then ruling Congress and Bhalla was elected the first woman mayor of Moga. Since AAP won the assembly elections, 32 corporators from Congress, SAD and BJP have joined Aam Aadmi Party, taking the party’s official strength to 36.
AAP said, development work had come to a standstill in Moga
Moga MLA Dr Amandeep Kaur Arora says that ever since the Aam Aadmi Party government came to power, the development work in Moga has come to a complete standstill as the current mayor has not taken any interest. The government is of AAP, so people were complaining that development works are not being done. Now development works will accelerate. Let us inform that in the year 2015, the residents of Moga city had voted for the first Municipal Corporation House. Akshit Jain was elected as the first mayor of Moga. He is the son of former Shiromani Akali Dal MLA Joginder Pal Jain.
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