Punjab chief minister-designate Bhagwant Mann will meet Governor Banwarilal Purohit right now to stake a declare to kind the federal government within the state. Mann was elected because the AAP Legislature Occasion chief at a gathering in Mohali on Friday.
“A gathering of the legislature group was held right now. We’ve formally elected Bhagwant Mann as our chief,” Aam Aadmi Occasion chief Aman Arora stated right here.
Mann will take oath because the chief minister of Punjab on March 16 at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, in Nawanshahr district. He would be the seventeenth chief minister of Punjab.
Names of a number of MLAs, together with Harpal Singh Cheema, Aman Arora, Baljinder Kaur, Saravjit Kaur Manuke, Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, Budh Ram, Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, Jeevanjyot Kaur, and Dr Charanjit Singh, are doing the rounds for ministerial positions.
Cheema, the Chief of Opposition within the outgoing Legislative Meeting, was elected from the Dirba seat for the second time. Arora was re-elected from the Sunam seat. Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, a former IPS officer; Jeevanjyot Kaur, a social activist; and Dr Charanjit Singh, a watch surgeon, had been elected for the primary time.
Mann has invited AAP nationwide convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his swearing-in ceremony. Mann and Kejriwal pays obeisance on the Golden Temple, Durgiana Mandir, and Sri Ram Tirath Mandir on Sunday. Mann and Kejriwal may also participate in a roadshow in Amritsar to rejoice the AAP’s victory and thank voters.
In the meantime, Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit dissolved the fifteenth Vidhan Sabha after Congress get together’s Charanjit Singh Channi submitted his resignation because the chief minister to Purohit.
The AAP romped residence in 92 of the 117 meeting seats in Punjab. Mann gained from the Dhuri seat by an enormous margin of 58,206 votes. It decimated the Congress and the SAD-BSP mix and its candidates defeated a number of stalwarts, together with Channi, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) patriarch Parkash Singh Badal and former chief minister Amarinder Singh.
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