Aman Arora

Aman Arora is an Indian politician. He is currently a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Sunam Assembly constituency and is the president of the Punjab state unit of the Aam Aadmi Party.^[2][3]

Aman Arora
Cabinet Minister, Government of Punjab
Cabinet	Mann ministry
Chief Minister	Bhagwant Mann
Ministry and Departments	Information & Public Relations New and Renewable Energy Sources Housing and Urban Development Printing & Stationery
Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly[1]
Incumbent
Assumed office March 2017
Preceded by	Parminder Singh Dhindsa
Constituency	Sunam
Convener of Aam Aadmi Party Punjab
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 November 2024
Preceded by	Bhagwant Mann Budh Ram Singh (acting)
Co-convener of Aam Aadmi Party Punjab
In office 10 May 2017 – 17 March 2018
Preceded by	Post established
Succeeded by	Balbir Singh
In office 31 January 2019 – 22 November 2024
Preceded by	Balbir Singh
Succeeded by	Amansher Singh
Personal details
Born	(1974-08-12) 12 August 1974 (age 50) Sunam, Punjab, India
Political party	Aam Aadmi Party (2016-present)
Other political affiliations	Indian National Congress (till 2016)
Children	2
Alma mater	Panjab University, Chandigarh

Political career

Arora was elected from Sunam constituency for the first time as an MLA in the March 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election by a record 30,307 votes.^[4] He was re-elected as an MLA from Sunam and defeated his nearest opponent Jaswinder Singh Dhiman of Congress with a margin of 75,277 votes.^[5] He is the co-president of the Punjab state unit of AAP. The son of Bhagwan Das Arora, two-time MLA and Minister of Punjab, he joined politics at an early age and contested elections from Sunam twice, in 2007 and 2012, on the ticket of the Indian National Congress. In January 2016, after being influenced by Arvind Kejriwal’s politics of the common man, he joined the Aam Aadmi Party.

He became the co-convener of Aam Aadmi Party on 10 May 2017.^[6] He resigned from this post after apology by Arvind Kejriwal from Bikram Singh Majithia.^[7] In 2019 before 2019 Indian general election in Punjab he was appointed the chief of election campaign committee.^[8]

The Aam Aadmi Party gained a strong 79% majority in the sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly by winning 92 out of 117 seats in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. MP Bhagwant Mann was sworn in as Chief Minister on 16 March 2022.^[9]

Member of Legislative Assembly

He represents the Sunam Assembly constituency as MLA in Punjab Assembly.

Committee assignments of Punjab Legislative Assembly

• Chairman (2022–23) Committee on Public Accounts^[10]

Cabinet Minister

5 MLAs including Aman Arora were inducted into the cabinet and their swearing in ceremony took place on 4 July 2022.^[11] On 5 July, Bhagwant Mann announced the expansion of his cabinet of ministers with five new ministers to the departments of Punjab state government. Aman Arora was among the inducted ministers and was given the charge of the following departments.^[12]

• Information & Public Relations
• New and Renewable Energy Sources
• Housing and Urban Development

Electoral performance

This section is transcluded from Sunam Assembly constituency. (edit | history)

Punjab Assembly election, 2017: Sunam^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Aman Arora	72,815	47.38%
	SAD	Gobind Singh Longowal	42508	27.66%
	INC	Daman Thind Bajwa	30518	19.86%
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors			185,303	[14]

Punjab Assembly election, 2022: Sunam

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Aman Arora[15]	94,794	61.28
	INC	Jaswinder Singh Dhiman[16]	19517
	SAD	Baldev Singh Maan	12714
		None of the above	1505
Majority			75277	48.66
Turnout
Registered electors				[17]