63-year-old Jagdish Raja elected as Jalandhar mayor

JALANDHAR: Jagdish Raja was on Thursday elected as the sixth mayor of Jalandhar The 63yearold veteran leader had earlier served four tenures as Congress councillor

Updated At : 06:19 PM Jan 25, 2018 IST

Mayor Jagdish Raja and others in Jalandhar. Tribune photo: Malkiat Singh

Rachna Khaira

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, January 25

Former MC leader of opposition Jagdish Raja was on Thursday elected as the sixth mayor of Jalandhar.

The 63-year-old veteran leader had earlier served four tenures as Congress councillor. This is his fifth tenure as a councillor from Ward No 48.

Also, four-time councillor Surinder Kaur was elected as senior deputy mayor and Congress MLA Sushil Rinku’s close aide Harsimran Bunty was elected as deputy mayor.

Raja has a history of holding important positions in the MCJ. His wife Anita also served as three-time councillor and also a senior deputy mayor from 2002 to 2007.