Let us tell you that Bhagwant Mann is an MP from Sangrur Lok Sabha seat of Punjab.
Chandigarh, Assembly elections are going to be held in 5 states of the country. At the same time, the results of the elections will also be announced on March 10. Meanwhile, today the ‘Aam Aadmi Party’ has declared Bhagwant Mann as its chief ministerial candidate for the Punjab Assembly Election 2022. Bhagwant Mann is the biggest face of ‘AAP’ in Punjab. Bhagwant Mann was the only candidate of ‘Aam Aadmi Party’ who won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Let us tell you that Bhagwant Mann is an MP from Sangrur Lok Sabha seat of Punjab. At the same time, he is also the president of Aam Aadmi Party’s Punjab unit.
Bhagwant Mann is quite popular in Punjab. He started his career as a comedian. Bhagwant Singh also won two gold medals during the Inter College Competition at Punjabi University, Patiala. He did his first comedy album with Jagtar Jaggi. This album became very popular. His television program ‘Jugoon Kahadaan Hai’ also became very popular. Together they have done many shows in Canada and England as well. Apart from this, Bhagwant Mann has also appeared in the show ‘The Great Indian Laughter Challenge’.
In the year 2012, Bhagwant Mann entered politics. He started his political innings with Manpreet Badal’s Punjab People Party. Bhagwant Mann contested the 2012 Punjab Assembly elections from the Lehra assembly seat of Sangrur. But, he did not win. After this, Bhagwant Mann joined the Aam Aadmi Party in the year 2014. After joining AAP, he contested from Sangrur Lok Sabha seat. This time he won and he reached the Parliament. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the Aam Aadmi Party won 4 seats. One of them was the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat won by Bhagwant Mann.
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Bhagwant Mann contested the 2017 Punjab Assembly elections against the then Deputy Chief Minister of the state and Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Singh Badal from the Jalalabad assembly seat. But, he had to face defeat here. During the election this year, Bhagwant Mann has been in a lot of controversies due to his drinking habit. After this, in the year 2019, at a rally of the Aam Aadmi Party in Barnala, Mann took an oath to never drink alcohol. Bhagwant Mann came on stage with his mother and swore to his mother and said, “Mother, I have completely given up alcohol since January 1, now I will never touch it.”
Bhagwant Mann slowly started making his political career. He became the chief of Aam Aadmi Party’s Punjab unit in the year 2017. But, in the year 2018, AAP leaders apologized to Bikram Singh Majithia in the drug allegations and defamation case. Thereafter Mann resigned from his post. But at the behest of Arvind Kejriwal, he once again accepted this post.
In the year 2019 general election, once again Bhagwant Mann contested from Sangrur Lok Sabha seat and won by more than 1 lakh votes. The special thing was that if the Aam Aadmi Party won any one seat in the whole country, it was Sangrur Lok Sabha seat.
Bhagwant Mann had told in an interview that due to joining politics, he had to lose a lot. Bhagwant Mann got divorced from his wife in 2015 itself. He had told that, ‘I do not even talk to my children on the phone anymore. Maybe I could not give time to my family, because of which I had to be away from my wife. We had divorced only by mutual consent.