Manoeuvring for mayorship on

Manoeuvring for mayorship on
Rajay Deep
Tribune News Service

Bathinda, July 8
Despite authorising party chief Sukhbir Badal for selecting mayor of the Bathinda Municipal Corporation, the SAD aspirants for mayor are still busy in manoeuvring.
In such an attempt, Master Harmander Singh, a councillor from ward number 15 and a loyalist of SAD area-in-charge Sarup Chand Singla, today took as many as 14 out of a total of 24 winning councillors to the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
According to sources, Rajan Garg, Baljeet Singh Bir Behman, Bhupinder Singh Bhullar, Tek Khalsa, Banta Singh were the councillors who refused to join them.
Meanwhile, Santosh Mahant, Rajinder Kaur Brar, Gurpreet Kaur and Daljeet Singh Brar took leave after informing about their engagements.
It may be mentioned here that on July 2, SAD general secretary Balwinder Singh Bhunder held a meeting with all municipal councillors, where they all individually gave their preferences for the post and in the end, the right was surrendered the right to select the mayor to Sukhbir Badal.
Today’s move by Harmander Singh to take 14 councillors to Amritsar provided enough fuel for speculations.
According to information available, the mayor will be declared on July 10.