Besides Rintu, Raman Bakshi was elected as senior deputy mayor, whereas Younis Kumar was elected as deputy mayor for the holy city.
Punjab Local Bodies minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, who is an MLA from Amritsar (East), was conspicuous by his absence.
Yesterday, apparently miffed over not being invited for the Amritsar mayoral election, Sidhu had said "he never goes anywhere uninvited except the Golden Temple or Durgiana Temple".
Notably, Sidhu and Rintu were not on good terms. Sidhu also does not share a good rapport with senior deputy mayor Bakshi, who once pasted posters of Sidhu "missing" in city when the latter was in the BJP.
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