Mumbai: Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party’s national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday announced Bhagwant Mann as the party’s CM face ahead of the elections in Punjab.
“Aam Aadmi Party Lok Sabha MP from Sangrur constituency in Punjab Bhagwant Mann will be the party’s chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming Assembly elections,” Kejriwal said while addressing a press conference here.
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AAP had last week issued a phone number asking people to name their favourite chief ministerial candidate for the party in Punjab.
AAP has said that it got around 22 lakh responses on this number. Describing Mann as his “younger brother”, Kejriwal said 93.3 per cent of the total responses wanted Bhagwant Mann as the party’s chief ministerial candidate.
Bhagwant Mann is currently a Member of Parliament from the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat of Punjab. Born in 1973 in Satoj village of Sangrur, Mann started his career as a comedian. He started his political career in 2011 with the Punjab People’s Party, which is headed by Manpreet Singh Badal.
Mann has been elected to the Punjab Lok Sabha seat of Sangrur for two terms in a row since 2014. Mann, a celebrity-turned-politician, gained popularity from his satires in the TV show ‘Jugnu Mast Mast’.
He also featured in several other comedy shows. In the 2017 Punjab Assembly polls, Congress won 77 seats in the 117-member House, whereas Shiromani Akali Dal could win only 18 seats.
On the other hand, AAP emerged as the second-largest party with 20 seats. Assembly elections in Punjab will be held on February 20. The counting of votes will be done on March 10.
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