{"id":137378,"date":"2025-01-12T19:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T13:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/?p=137378"},"modified":"2025-01-12T19:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T13:54:20","slug":"vineet-dhir-elected-as-mayor-jalandhar-with-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/?p=137378","title":{"rendered":"VINEET DHIR\u00a0ELECTED\u00a0AS MAYOR JALANDHAR WITH MAJORITY\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8211; BALBIR SINGH DHILLON BECOMES SENIOR DEPUTY MAYOR, MALKEET SINGH DEPUTY MAYOR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Jalandhar, 12 January 2025: <\/strong>Senior AAP leader Mr. Vineet Dhir was today elected\u00a0as the\u00a0Mayor\u00a0of Municipal Corporation Jalandhar (MCJ) with majority in the presence of all the newly\u00a0elected\u00a0councilors of the civic body here at Red Cross Bhawan, Jalandhar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The name of Mr. Dhir was proposed by the two councillors amidst the thunderous applause by the other councilors. Meanwhile, Balbir Singh Dhillon was elected as Senior Deputy Mayor of the MCJ. Likewise, Councilor Mr. Malkeet Singh was elected as Deputy Mayor of the MCJ after their names were proposed by the councillors, followed by thumping consent from the majority. AAP councilor Gurminder Singh acted as presiding officer of the elections.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137382 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1000228081-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1000228081-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1000228081-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1000228081-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1000228081-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1000228081.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137381 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1000228078-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1000228078-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1000228078-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1000228078-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1000228078-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1000228078.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137380 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1000228075-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1000228075-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1000228075-768x717.jpg 768w, https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1000228075.jpg 985w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Commissioner of Jalandhar Division Mr. Arun Sekhri administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly elected councilors. Commissioner of Muncipal Corporation Jalandhar Mr. Gautam Jain welcomed all the dignitaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Prominent amongst others present on the occasion included Cabinet Minister Mohinder Bhagat, MLAs Balkar Singh, Raman Arora, Pargat Singh, Bawa Hanery, and Sukhwinder Kotli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; BALBIR SINGH DHILLON BECOMES SENIOR DEPUTY MAYOR, MALKEET SINGH DEPUTY MAYOR Jalandhar, 12 January&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,388],"tags":[7891],"class_list":["post-137378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-political","tag-timespunjabnews-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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