Overview
- The oath-taking ceremony at the Punjab Vidhan Sabha secretariat featured senior AAP leaders Manish Sisodia, Aman Arora, Harpal Singh Cheema and MLA Budh Ram.
- Arora’s June 19 bypoll win by a margin of 10,637 votes saw him secure 35,179 votes against Congress’s Bharat Bhushan Ashu, who garnered 24,542 votes.
- He took the constitutional pledge to uphold India’s sovereignty and integrity as he assumed his legislative duties.
- Arora is slated to join the Punjab cabinet under Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s leadership in the coming weeks.
- His move to the assembly has vacated his Rajya Sabha seat, and AAP has yet to choose a successor for the upper house position.