The Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee on Saturday named Kulwinder Kaur, 59, as the party’s mayoral candidate for the upcoming municipal corporation (MC) election in Ambala.
The post of mayor here has been reserved for the Backward Class block-B (BC-B) woman category.
Kaur will be contesting her first-ever election and has formally joined the party only six months back. She thanked the party for the opportunity and said that after winning the Ambala Lok Sabha seat and Ambala city assembly constituency, the party will win in the MC elections as well.
Ambala district congress president (urban) Pawan Aggarwal, welcomed the party’s decision and said that names of the party candidates from all 20 Wards will be announced next week. BJP, INLD and other parties are yet to announce their mayor nominees.
Ambala will vote for its second woman mayor on May 10 this year. Counting will be held on May 13 with results to be announced the same day.
Similarly, the party announced Kamal Diwan, president of the District Congress Committee (Urban), as their candidate for the Sonipat municipal corporation.
State president Rao Narendra Singh said that Diwan hails from a distinguished political family and his father late Devraj Diwan, served as an MLA from Sonipat, who possessed a strong public connect and extensive experience in public service within the region.
{{/usCountry}}State president Rao Narendra Singh said that Diwan hails from a distinguished political family and his father late Devraj Diwan, served as an MLA from Sonipat, who possessed a strong public connect and extensive experience in public service within the region.
{{/usCountry}}Additionally, he informed that the candidate for the post of mayor of the Panchkula municipal corporation would also be announced shortly.