Three Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal and Sanjeev Arora took oath as Rajya Sabha members from Punjab on Monday.
All three AAP leaders were elected unopposed Punjab In March because no other political party had nominated any candidate for the Rajya Sabha elections in the state.
Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu administers oath to newly elected members of AAP Rajya Sabha In his chamber in the Parliament House.
While Chadha is a senior AAP leader, Mittal is the founder of the Phagwara-based Lovely Professional University (LPU), the first private university in the state and the largest in India.
Chadha is believed to have played a key role in AAP’s landslide victory in the Punjab Assembly elections.
He was the co-incharge of AAP’s political affairs Punjab When the Arvind Kejriwal-led party contested the assembly elections in the state and won 92 seats after the election results were declared.
A Ludhiana-based businessman, Arora runs the Krishna Pran Breast Cancer Charitable Trust, which he founded after his parents lost their lives to cancer. The trust has given free treatment to more than 160 cancer patients.
Arora is also a member of the Governing Board of Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana and Apex Council of Punjab Cricket Association.