One day after receiving four police gunmen for his security, Jalandhar Central Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Raman Arora began working from his office on Saturday.
AAP MLA Raman Arora shared a video on social media yesterday evening (Saturday) depicting him walking from his residence to his office accompanied by his security team. One day after receiving four police gunmen for his security, Jalandhar Central Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Raman Arora began working from his office on Saturday.
He shared the video on social media, depicting him walking from home to the office accompanied by his security team.
Upon arriving at his office, he was observed greeting his supporters, who also presented him with sweets. The video additionally reveals that when a local voter came to him for document verification, he signed and affixed an MLA’s stamp on the papers, suggesting that he had now been granted permission for this task and his constituents could contact him for daily document validation.
The video aims to significantly undermine the authority of businessman and halqa in-charge Kohli, who has been in control since Arora’s arrest on May 23. Establishing two parallel power centers of the AAP within a single Assembly segment might create confusion among the public.
The stance will become evident once CM Bhagwant Mann travels to Jalandhar in the coming days and provides any indication.
Since Arora was granted bail in a corruption case initiated by the Vigilance Bureau of the Jalandhar range, he has not been spotted engaging with his constituents without explicit directives from higher authorities. He was observed performing bhajans and participating in religious events. He had been mobilizing his parallel tirath yatra jathas, which were entirely independent of the state government. In the meantime, he also monitored his clothing business, which was largely overseen by his son.
All government operations in the constituency were managed by AAP halqa in-charge Nitin Kohli, even after Arora’s release. Former Congress MLA Rajinder Beri and ex-BJP minister Manoranjan Kalia frequently criticized the AAP’s measures that sidelined the MLA from political engagements and gave excessive authority to the halqa in-charge, whom they claimed was acting unconstitutionally.
