BATHINDA, Feb. 3 -- After getting its candidates elected as mayors of Amritsar and Phagwara in the last one week, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is now eyeing to capture the top seat of the Bathinda municipal corporation (MC), which is poised to elect a new mayor on Feb 5.

AAP has only one councillor, Padamjeet Mehta, who won on the party ticket whereas seven councillors from the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Congress joined the party wagon in the last few months.

Raman Goyal, a confidante of the former finance minister Manpreet Badal, who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after quitting the Congress, was removed from the post on November 16, 2023, after she failed in the no-confidence test brought by her former colleagues i...