new Delhi: AAP created history in Punjab by defeating the ruling Congress and blowing away other parties in the 2022 assembly elections and Bhagwant Mann is all set to take oath as the chief minister of the state on March 16.
While people were curious to know who would join Mann’s cabinet, people will have to wait for some more time as only the CM will take oath on March 16. According to an ANI report, 16 MLAs will take oath as ministers. Punjab but he will not be administered the oath on the date of Mann itself.
The party will reveal the details of the swearing-in ceremony of the cabinet ministers later.
Mann will take oath as the Chief Minister of Punjab on March 16 at Khatkar Kalan, the native village of eminent freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.
Bhagwant Mann staked claim to form the government in the state after meeting Governor Banwarilal Purohit here on Saturday.
After the meeting, Mann told reporters outside the Raj Bhavan that he handed over the letter of support of his party’s legislators to the governor, who accepted it.
“We staked claim to form the government and the governor approved it,” Mann said.
Mann, 48, was on Friday elected the leader of the AAP Legislature Party at a meeting of party legislators in Mohali.
While the AAP won a historic victory in the Punjab elections by winning 92 seats in the 117-member assembly, the ruling Congress, which had won 77 seats in 2017, was reduced to 18 seats with most of its bigwigs including CM Charanjit Channi and the state party. Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu suffered a humiliating defeat from his respective strongholds.
Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its former ally Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) failed to achieve even double-digit numbers.
The BJP, which won three seats in 2017 when it contested in alliance with the SAD, got only two seats, while the SAD won four.