Amit Rattan Kotfatta

Some Lesser Known Facts About Amit Rattan Kotfatta

• Amit Rattan Kotfatta is an Indian politician who was elected as the MLA of the Aam Aadmi Party from the Bathinda Rural Assembly constituency in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. On 23 February 2023, he was arrested by the Bathinda Vigilance Bureau in connection to a bribery case.

• He always prefixes ‘Engineer’ before his name on social media pages.

• His wife is a 2007 police officer who is posted in Nagaland. Earlier she was posted in Jalandhar Rural. His sister and brother-in-law are also class 1 officers in Haryana.

• In 2020, he was expelled by the SAD after he was accused of cheating party workers by not providing them with business opportunities. After that, many farmers in the constituency complained about him cheating on them. However, there was no police case registered against him.

• In 2022, when he was announced as a candidate by AAP, the decision was severely criticised by the founding members of the AAP in Punjab.

• In 2022, during the election campaign, the Bharti Kisan Union Ekta Ugrahan’s Sangat block members protested in front of his house for three days because he was alleged of not paying some youngsters who got some surveys done in 2017.

• In the same year, some people complained to the Bathinda inspector general of police about a fake company run by Amit that collected money from youngsters. A letter was written to Arvind Kejriwal for review of candidature. Amit denied the allegations against him and said that there was no proof available.

• In 2022, however, he won the elections and after being elected as the MLA from Bathinda Rural, he said,
  

  My aim is to serve public selflessly and become a bridge between the government and people to get as many works of people done from the authorities. I will also work in the direction of eradicating corruption from the system.”