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Karamjit Singh Rintu is new Mayor of Amritsar

Congress party’s Karamjit Singh Rintu is elected as the eighth Ma... Read More
AMRITSAR: Congress party’s

Karamjit Singh Rintu

is elected as the eighth Mayor of Amritsar while

Raman Bakshi

and

Younis Kumar

are elected as the Senior Deputy Mayor and Junior Deputy Mayor respectively in the general house session of

Amritsar Municipal Corporation

held here on Tuesday.

Strangely local body minister Navjot Singh Sidhu and as many as sixteen of his supporting Municipal Councillors boycotted the session.

Sources informed that Sidhu was annoyed with party high command for not taking him in confidence in picking the Mayoral candidates, the indication of which was given by Sidhu himself on the eve of Mayor’s election when he said he wouldn’t go anywhere without invitation but to Gurdwara’s and temples.

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