Bhagwant Singh Mann, AAP's MP from Sangrur, is also a professional comedian. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has named Bhagwant Mann as the party’s chief ministerial face for the upcoming assembly elections in Punjab, who will contest from Dhuri seat. In May 2014, Mann became the MP for Sangrur constituency, Punjab. Bhagwant Mann is the only member of parliament from the Aam Aadmi Party in the lower house (Lok Sabha) of the parliament. Born into a Sikh family, Mann also performs skits in the Punjabi language. He is a comic poet with political satire in it. In early 2011, Mann joined the People's Party of Punjab. In 2012, he unsuccessfully contested elections in the Lehragaga constituency. Mann's political journey took a turn after he joined Aam Aadmi Party in 2014 to contest elections in the Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency and won by 211,721 votes. Mann was also the convener of AAP Punjab but resigned after Arvind Kejriwal tendered an unconditional apology to Bikaramjeet Majithia over the drug mafia case. In 2017, Mann contested elections in Jalalabad against Sukhbir Singh Badal and Ravneet Singh Bittu. He lost the elections to Badal by 18,500 votes. Mann had an alcohol addiction and had been often found drunk during parliamentary sessions. His alleged problems with alcohol became a huge controversy ahead of the 2017 Punjab elections. However, he does not have any criminal records against him. In 2019, to handle this controversy AAP held a rally at Barnala, where he swore not to touch alcohol again. And later in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Mann won again from the Sangrur constituency by 111,111 votes.
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Punjab news: Services of IAS officer Malwinder Singh Jaggi have been placed at the disposal of the department of local government for posting as chief executive officer of Punjab water supply and sewerage board, the order said.
Old pension scheme Punjab: Earlier, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand too went back to the Old Pension Scheme and quashed the new pension scheme.
Air Pollution worsens: The Delhi CM also accepted that it is the responsibility of the AAP government which is Punjab to stop stubble burning.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar made a statement saying, "Punjab CM tries to find politics in everything, stubble burning in Haryana reduced by 25 per cent to 2,249 cases, compared to last year. Punjab has seen a 20 per cent hike.
The Gujarat Home Minister asked, "He received the cash through Angadia. From where has this money come? This question should be asked from leaders of AAP."
While addressing the rally Kejriwal took stock of this situation and said that he considers the flag wavers as his brothers, and that he would win over their hearts one day.
Purohit's response came after Punjab Finance Minister HS Cheema, who met Punjab Agriculture University VC in a statement asked the Governor to not obstruct the government's work.
The AAP government in Delhi was forced to withdraw the policy in July after LG VK Saxena recommended to the CBI a probe alleging irregularities in its implementation.
Mann said that services of 8,736 employees have already been regularised and the process of regularising that of others is in pipeline.
Sources said the Governor sent back the file with the proposal to appoint noted cardiologist Dr Gurpreet Singh Wander as VC. Instead, he has asked the state government to send a list of three names for the post.
Punjab trust vote: 93 MLAs voted in support of the trust vote, there were no votes against the motion, and was passed unanimously.
Punjab confidence motion: The AAP government enjoys brute majority with 92 MLAs in the 117-member House
Punjab Assembly session: This will be the Punjab government's third Assembly session that is scheduled to take place at around 11:00 am in Chandigarh.
The fresh development comes after governor Banwari Lal Purohit had stopped the Mann-led regime's plan to summon a special assembly session on September 22 to bring a "confidence motion only".
AAP MLAs began a 'peace march' from the Vidhan Sabha complex to the Governor's residence. The state assembly session will be called again on Sep 27.
Bhagwant Mann slammed Governor Purohit for withdrawing his order of summoning a special session of the Assembly, saying not allowing it raises a big question on the country's democracy.
Bhagwant Mann de-boarded row: Lufthansa News tweeted that it can't provide information regarding individual passengers due to data protection reasons.
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal who that Mann was deplaned from the Lufthansa flight because of being in a drunk state. He shared a media report on Twitter and claimed that "reports have embarrassed & shamed Punjabis all over the globe."
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had earlier criticized the Agnipath Scheme and appealed to the central government to give defence job aspirants the chance to serve the country throughout their life, not just four years.
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