Aman Arora, a member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), serves as the co-president of the Punjab state unit. |
Before AAP, Arora was in the Indian National Congress (INC) and contested the Sunam assembly seat in 2007 and 2012. |
Arora was inspired to enter politics by watching his father, Bhagwan Das Arora, serve the people of Sunam and Punjab. |
Bhagwan Das Arora established a dental college and hospital in 1996 to enhance community services. |
Bhagwan Das Arora, who was twice elected as an MLA from Sunam, sadly passed away in 2000. |
After his demise, Parmeshwari Devi, Arora's mother, ran for the Sunam seat in a by-election but did not win. |
Aman Arora's brother, Kamaldeep Arora, faced accusations of kidnapping in 1996 and passed away in 2019. |
Sonia Arora, Aman's sister, contested but lost the 2002 Sunam assembly election on a Congress ticket. |
Influenced by Arvind Kejriwal's politics, Aman Arora joined AAP in January 2016. |
Arora was appointed as the co-convener of AAP's Punjab unit in 2017. |
In 2018, Arora's resignation, submitted in protest with Bhagwant Mann, was not accepted by AAP. |
Arora secured a re-election as the Sunam MLA in 2022, defeating the INC candidate. |
Arora was recently inducted into the Punjab cabinet in July 2022, taking on multiple portfolios. |