Keshminder, Mohan return as Subang Jaya councillors

The Subang Jaya municipal council has two Sikhs as councilors again.

Keshminder Singh and Mohan Singh Surtar Singh were sworn in yesterday (26 July 2018) to serve as councillors of Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya (MPSJ) for a two-year term. Both have served the council earlier.

Keshminder, 58, returns after a spell of six years. He represents the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR).

His lawyer-politician father, the late Karam Singh Veriah, was Malaya’s first youngest Member of Parliament when he elected under the Socialist Front ticket at 22 in 1959. In 1966, he was detained under the draconian Internal Security Act (ISA) laws.

Keshminder’s grandfather, Kaher Singh Veriah, was an MIC assemblyman in Negeri Sembilan.

Mohan, 45, who returns returns as a third term councilor, comes under the NGO quota.

He is also the special assistant to Puchong MP Gobind Singh Deo, who is also the Federal Minister of Communications and Multimedia.

in March, businessman Jasvir Singh, who is  also Bentong gurdwara management committee president, was appointed as a council member of Bentong Municipal Council, believed to be the first Sikh in the municipality in the state of Pahang.

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