Aman Arora is an Indian politician. He is currently a

Member of the Legislative Assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly such as that of a state, province, or territory of a country. S ...

for Sunam Assembly constituency, and is the co-president of the

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

state unit of

Aam Aadmi Party The Aam Aadmi Party (; AAP) is a political party in India, as one of the national political parties. The AAP was founded in November 2012 by Arvind Kejriwal and his then-companions following the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, popular ...

Political career

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

2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election A Legislative Assembly election was held in the Indian state of Punjab on 4 February 2017 to elect the 117 members of the Fifteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly. The counting of votes was done on 11 March 2017. The ruling pre-election coalition w ...

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

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

. In January 2016, after being influenced by

Arvind Kejriwal Arvind Kejriwal (Hindi: �ɾʋin̪d̪ ked͡ʒɾiːʋaːl born 16 August 1968) is an Indian politician, former bureaucrat, and activist who is the 7th and current Chief Minister of Delhi since February 2015. Currently, he is the national conv ...

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

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

from Bikram Singh Majithia. In 2019 before

2019 Indian general election in Punjab The 2019 Indian general election in Punjab, India, Punjab was held on 19 May 2019, making it seventh and the last phase of the election. Counting was held on 23 May 2019 and result was also declared on same day. Surveys Opinion polls Exit Po ...

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

sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly Election for the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly was held in the Indian state of Punjab. Polling was done on 20 February 2022 to elect the 117 members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The counting of votes declaration of results was done on 10 ...

by winning 92 out of 117 seats in the

2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in Punjab on 20 February 2022 to elect the 117 members of the 16th Assembly of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 10 March 2022. The Aam Aadmi P ...

. MP

Bhagwant Mann Bhagwant Singh Mann (born 17 October 1973) is an Indian politician and current Chief Minister of Punjab. He leads the cabinet ministry of Punjab and is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party. He is a former actor, comedian and satirist. He previous ...

was sworn in as

Chief Minister A chief minister is an elected or appointed head of government of – in most instances – a sub-national entity, for instance an administrative subdivision or federal constituent entity. Examples include a state (and sometimes a union terri ...

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 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