Mumbai: Punjab Nominated Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday highlighted the claims of opposition parties that the Aam Aadmi Party does not have the experience to govern the border state of Punjab.
“We know how to run the administration. I have been a member of [Lok Sabha] for seven years,” People have re-elected our government in Delhi. We have the experience,” said Mann.
“Many veteran politicians have lost the elections, and new people have won. I am sure new ideas will come in the state. There will be out the box thinking in this government,” he added.
Mann, MP from Sangrur constituency, will submit his resignation to Speaker Om Birla on Monday. On his last day in the House as an MP, Mann told ANI, “I will miss this House. Punjab has given me a huge responsibility. I promise to the people of Sangrur that a bold voice for them will echo soon in this House.”
Further, rejecting suggestions from opposition parties that Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will be Punjab’s ‘super CM’, Mann said that we will take guidance from everywhere.
Mann said, “We will take guidance from Delhi, and Delhi will also take guidance from Punjab. If something good is happening in other states, we will take guidance from there as well.”
AAP has got a massive victory in the Punjab Assembly elections. Mann, who was the party’s chief ministerial candidate, will take oath on March 16 at Khatkar Kalan, the native village of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.
It is worth mentioning that Mann has invited Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal for the swearing-in ceremony. Mann, who is contesting from Dhuri assembly constituency in Sangrur district, won by a margin of 58,206 votes over Dalveer Singh Goldy of INC.
AAP registered a landslide victory in the Punjab polls with 92 seats, pushing most of its rivals to the margins. Congress won 18 seats in the 117-member Assembly.
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