Batala Municipal Corporation

Batala Municipal Corporation
Batala Municipal Corporation
Type
Type	Municipal Corporation
History
Founded	2019
Preceded by	Batala Municipal Council
Leadership
Minister in charge	Bhagwant Mann
Mayor	Sukhdeep Singh Teja, INC ; since 19 April 2021
Senior deputy mayor	Sunil Kumar Sareen, INC ; since 19 April 2021
Junior deputy mayor	Chandra Kanta, INC ; since 19 April 2021
Municipal commissioner	Shayari Malhotra ; since 24 May 2022
Structure
Seats	51 ; (50 elected+1 Ex-Officio)
Political groups	Government (36) INC (36); Opposition (15) SAD (6); BJP (4); AAP (3); IND (1); Ex-officio AAP (1);
Length of term	5 Years
Elections
First election	14 February 2021
Next election	2026
Website
	lgpunjab.gov.in

The Batala Municipal Corporation is a nagar nigam (municipal corporation) which administers the city of Batala, Punjab. It has 50 members elected with a first-past-the-post voting system and 1 ex-officio member which is MLA for Batala. In 2019 Government of Punjab decided to upgrade Batala Municipal council into Municipal Corporation, earlier it was a municipal council.

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