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Raghav Chadha, two other AAP leaders take oath as Rajya Sabha MPs from Punjab

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal and Sanjeev Arora took oath as their party’s Rajya Sabha members from Punjab on Monday. Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu administered the oath to the newly-elected AAP members of Rajya Sabha in his chamber at Parliament House.

(L-R) AAP leader Raghav Chadha, industrialist Sanjeev Arora, and Lovely Professional University Chancellor Ashok Mittal take oath as Rajya Sabha members, at Parliament House, in New Delhi, on Monday.

All the three AAP leaders were elected unopposed from Punjab in March as no other political party had nominated any candidate the state for the Rajya Sabha elections.

While Chadha is a senior leader of the AAP, Mittal is the founder of Phagwara-based Lovely Professional University (LPU), the first private university in the state and one of the largest in India.

Chadha is considered to have played a significant role in the AAP’s stupendous victory in the Punjab assembly polls. Arora, a businessman from Ludhiana, runs the Krishna Pran Breast Cancer Charitable Trust. Arora is also on the governing board of Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, and a member of the apex council of the Punjab Cricket Association.