Aman Arora is an Indian politician. He is currently a

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for Sunam Assembly constituency and is the president of the

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state unit of the Aam Aadmi Party.

Political career

Arora was elected from Sunam constituency for the first time as an MLA in the March

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by a record 30,307 votes. He was re-elected as an MLA from Sunam and defeated his nearest opponent Jaswinder Singh Dhiman of Congress with a margin of 75,277 votes. He is the co-president of the Punjab state unit of AAP. The son of Bhagwan Das Arora, two-time MLA and Minister of Punjab, he joined politics at an early age and contested elections from Sunam twice, in 2007 and 2012, on the ticket of the Indian

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. In January 2016, after being influenced by

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’s politics of the common man, he joined the Aam Aadmi Party. He became the co-convener of

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on 10 May 2017. He resigned from this post after apology by

from

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. In 2019 before

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he was appointed the chief of election campaign committee. The Aam Aadmi Party gained a strong 79% majority in the

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by winning 92 out of 117 seats in the

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. MP

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was sworn in as

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on 16 March 2022.

Member of Legislative Assembly

He represents the Sunam Assembly constituency as MLA in Punjab Assembly. ; Committee assignments of Punjab Legislative Assembly *Chairman (2022–23) Committee on Public Accounts

Cabinet Minister

5 MLAs including Aman Arora were inducted into the cabinet and their swearing in ceremony took place on 4 July 2022. On 5 July, Bhagwant Mann announced the expansion of his cabinet of ministers with five new ministers to the departments of Punjab state government. Aman Arora was among the inducted ministers and was given the charge of the following departments. :

Electoral performance

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Arora, Aman Living people Punjab, India MLAs 2017–2022 Aam Aadmi Party politicians from Punjab, India Indian National Congress politicians from Punjab, India 1974 births People from Sangrur district Punjab, India MLAs 2022–2027