Bhagwant Singh Mann is an Indian politician, social worker, former comedian, singer and actor who is currently serving as the 17th Chief minister of Punjab since 2022.
39 Facts About Bhagwant Mann
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Bhagwant Mann represents the Dhuri Assembly constituency in the Punjab Legislative Assembly since 2022 and is serving as the state convener of Aam Aadmi Party, Punjab since 2019.
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Bhagwant Mann completed his first year of a Bachelor of Commerce course at Shaheed Udham Singh Government College, Sunam.
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Bhagwant Mann won two gold medals at a competition at the Punjabi University, Patiala for the Shaheed Udham Singh Government College, Sunam.
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Bhagwant Mann developed comedy routines about typical Indian issues such as politics, business and sport.
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In 2008, Bhagwant Mann competed in the Great Indian Laughter Challenge on Star Plus which increased his audience.
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Bhagwant Mann acted in National Award winning Film "Main Maa Punjab Dee" Directed by Balwant Dullat.
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In early 2011, Bhagwant Mann joined the People's Party of Punjab.
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In March 2014, Bhagwant Mann joined the Aam Aadmi Party to contest elections in the Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency.
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Bhagwant Mann fought his first Lok Sabha election against former union minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and won by 211,721 votes.
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In 2017, Bhagwant Mann was appointed the convener of AAP Punjab.
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Bhagwant Mann contested the 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election, from Jalalabad against Sukhbir Singh Badal and Ravneet Singh Bittu.
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Bhagwant Mann lost the elections to Badal by 18,500 votes.
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In January 2019, Bhagwant Mann was appointed the convener of AAP Punjab for a second time.
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In 2019, during a party rally in Barnala, Bhagwant Mann announced that he had denounced alcohol and swore never to touch it again.
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Bhagwant Mann got 533,237 total votes and won election with a margin of 211,721 votes.
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Bhagwant Mann won his second term in the Parliament with a margin of 110,211 votes.
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Bhagwant Mann got 413,561 votes while contesting against Kewal Singh Dhillon from Indian National Congress and Parminder Singh Dhindsa from Shiromani Akali Dal.
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Bhagwant Mann is only Member of parliament from Aam Aadmi Party in the lower house of the parliament.
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Bhagwant Mann appealed for clearing the due early along with interest.
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Bhagwant Mann asked for compensation for the losses in cotton farmers due to the pest attack.
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Bhagwant Mann publicly released his statement that was made during the Committee meeting on 5 June 2020.
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Two days before taking the oath as CM of Punjab, Bhagwant Mann resigned from his post of MP Sangrur on 14 March 2022.
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On 18 January 2022, Bhagwant Mann was chosen as the Aam Aadmi Party candidate for the Chief Minister of Punjab in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election, based on the party's public poll that overwhelmingly weighed in his favour.
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Bhagwant Mann took oath as the 17th Chief Minister of Punjab on 16 March 2022 at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.
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Bhagwant Mann had stated that the police force was needed for the security of the people and not VIPs.
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AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal said Bhagwant Mann had "removed the security of old ministers and gave security to the public".
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On 19 March 2022, during the first Cabinet meeting, Bhagwant Mann announced his decision to fill 25,000 job openings in various departments of Punjab government.
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Bhagwant Mann will bring a bill to the assembly to this effect.
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On 30 March 2022, Bhagwant Mann ordered that private schools cannot hike their school fees in the year 2022.
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Bhagwant Mann ordered that no school can force the parents to make school-related purchases from exclusive stores.
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In June 2022, Bhagwant Mann announced Volvo bus service between IGI Airport and different Punjab cities of the state.
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Bhagwant Mann said that this service would break the monopoly of a few families in bus business with political links.
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On 19 November 2022, while giving a speech at Guru Nanak Dev University to commemorate Punjabi Language Month, Bhagwant Mann announced a government policy to require all public signboards to prominently feature Punjabi over other languages.
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Bhagwant Mann encouraged citizens to change their signs before 21 February 2023, after which the government will begin enforcing the rule.
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Bhagwant Mann exhorted educational institutions to begin adding specialized Punjabi language courses, citing his perceived decline in the proper use of Punjabi pronunciation and grammatical rules.
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Bhagwant Mann began a non-government organization, the "Lok Lehar Foundation", to aid children with physical deformities as a result of groundwater pollution in the border areas of Punjab.
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Bhagwant Mann is a comic poet who writes political satire.
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Bhagwant Mann was married to Inderpreet Kaur until their divorce in 2015.