Bhagwant Mann

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Bhagwant Mann
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17th Chief Minister of Punjab
Incumbent
Assumed office
16 March 2022
Residence(s)House Number 7, Sector 2, Chandigarh, India
Profession
Signature Bhagwant Mann signature.svg
Musical career
Also known as"Comedy King", "Jugnu"
GenresComedy, Satire
Years active1992–2015

Bhagwant Singh Mann (born 17 October 1973) is an Indian politician, social worker, former comedian, singer and actor who is currently serving as the 17th Chief minister of Punjab since 2022. He represents the Dhuri Assembly constituency in the Punjab Legislative Assembly since 2022 and is also serving as the state convener of Aam Aadmi Party, Punjab since 2019. [2] Previously, he was a member of the Lok Sabha from Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency from 2014 to 2022. [3]

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Early life

Mann was born on 17 October 1973 in Satoj village of Sunam tehsil of Sangrur district, Punjab, India. He completed Bachelor of Commerce at Shaheed Udham Singh Government College, Sunam. [4]

Acting career

Mann participated in youth comedy festivals and inter-college competitions. [5] He won two gold medals at a competition at the Punjabi University, Patiala for the Shaheed Udham Singh Government College, Sunam.

Mann developed comedy routines about typical Indian issues such as politics, business and sports. His first comedy album was with comedian Jagtar Jaggi. Together, they made a television program called Jugnu Kehnda Hai for Alpha ETC Punjabi. Ten years later, they parted ways. [6] Mann then formed a comedy partnership with Rana Ranbir. Together, they made the television program, Jugnu Mast Mast for Alpha ETC Punjabi. In 2006, Mann and Jaggi reunited and toured Canada and England with their show, No Life With Wife.

In 2008, Mann competed in the Great Indian Laughter Challenge on Star Plus which increased his audience. [7] [8]

Bhagwant Mann also acted in National Award winning Film "Main Maa Punjab Dee" Directed by Balwant Dullat. [9] [10] [11]

Mann acted in Jugnu Hazir Hai on MH One. [12]

Political career

In early 2011, Mann joined the People's Party of Punjab. [13] [14] In 2012, he unsuccessfully contested assembly elections in the Lehra constituency.

In March 2014, Mann joined the Aam Aadmi Party to contest elections in the Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency. He fought his first Lok Sabha election against former union minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and won by 211,721 votes. [15]

Convener of AAP Punjab

In 2017, Mann was appointed the convener of AAP Punjab. [16] In 2018 he resigned from the convener post after Arvind Kejriwal tendered an unconditional apology to Bikram Singh Majithia over Kejriwal's allegations about Majithia's involvement in the drug mafia case. [17] He contested the 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election, from Jalalabad against Sukhbir Singh Badal and Ravneet Singh Bittu. [18] He lost the elections to Badal by 18,500 votes. [19]

In January 2019, Mann was appointed the convener of AAP Punjab for a second time. His political rivals had in past criticized him over alcohol use. [20] Mann has denied these allegations. In 2019, during a party rally in Barnala, Mann announced that he had denounced alcohol and swore never to touch it again. [21] [22]

Member of Parliament

First term (2014–2019)

In May 2014, he was elected to the 16th Lok Sabha from Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency after defeating Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa from Shiromani Akali Dal. [23] He got 533,237 total votes and won election with a margin of 211,721 votes. [24]

Parliamentary Committee assignments

  • 1 September 2014 – 25 May 2019: Member, Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice. [25]
    • Member of the Consultative Committee, Ministry of Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water and Sanitation [25]
  • 11 December 2014 – 25 May 2019: Member, Joint Committee on Offices of Profit [25]

Second term (2019–2022)

In May 2019, he was re-elected to 17th Lok Sabha from Sangrur constituency in the 2019 Indian general election. He won his second term in the Parliament with a margin of 110,211 votes. He got 413,561 votes while contesting against Kewal Singh Dhillon from Indian National Congress and Parminder Singh Dhindsa from Shiromani Akali Dal. [26] He was the only Member of parliament from Aam Aadmi Party in the lower house (Lok Sabha) of the parliament. [27]

On 18 January 2022, he was chosen as the Chief Minister of Punjab candidate from the Aam Aadmi Party for the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. The selection was reportedly done by polling from the public and the results were declared by the party chief Arvind Kejriwal. [28] [29]

On 9 February, Mann raised issues about farmers in the Lok Sabha. The payment to sugarcane farmers for the year 2020–21 and 2021–22 had been pending. He appealed for clearing the due early along with interest. He asked for compensation for the losses in cotton farmers due to the pest attack. he asked that the Union government should recognize the farmers who died during the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest. [30]

Parliamentary Committee assignments

In 2021, the Parliamentary Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution submitted a report to the Union Government recommending the implementation of the Essential Commodities Act, 2020. The Essential Commodities Act, 2020 was one among the three controversial 2020 Indian agriculture acts that led to the year-long 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest. Mann publicly released his statement that was made during the Committee meeting on 5 June 2020. In his statement, Mann had raised concerns that these farm laws would increase hoarding. Removal of onions and tomatoes from the list of Essential Commodities would lead to price rise due to illegal stockpiling to increase the price and then selling at higher prices. This will create hardships for the poor. He also raised the issue of hoarding potatoes. [31]

Mann contested the 2022 Punjab Assembly elections and won. AAP won a large majority of 92 out of total 117 seats. Mann was designated as the CM. Two days before taking the oath as CM of Punjab, Mann resigned from his post of MP Sangrur on 14 March 2022. [32] [33] [34]

Chief Minister of Punjab

On 18 January 2022, Mann was chosen as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) 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. [35]

On 10 March, the election results showed Mann as the winner from Dhuri Assembly constituency with a significant difference of 58,206 votes, and the next day he was elected as the leader of the AAP legislative party. [36] The party itself went on to win 92 seats out of 117 in the state's assembly elections. [37] 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. [38] [39]

Ending VIP culture

Even before taking the oath, CM designate Mann took steps to end the VIP culture and met the Director General of Police. The next day the police DGP in charge of security ordered the withdrawal of police security from 122 former MLAs and ministers. A total of 384 policemen involved in the security of those politicians were transferred to their parent unit. Mann had stated that the police force was needed for the security of the people and not VIPs. The security of former chief ministers was continued as they had been provided security on the instructions of the Union Home Ministry. [40] [41] AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal said Mann had "removed the security of old ministers and gave security to the public". [42]

Employment

On 19 March 2022, during the first Cabinet meeting, Mann announced his decision to fill 25,000 job openings in various departments of Punjab government. 10,000 of those vacancies were in the Punjab Police. [43]

On 22 March, he announced his decision to make the 35,000 employees in the state working on a temporary, contractual basis permanent government employees. He will bring a bill to the assembly to this effect. Announcing his decision he said, "I don't want these teachers protesting on the roads, I had promised to regularize their services if we are voted to power and I am fulfilling my promise." [44]

On 5 September, Teachers' Day in 2022, he announced that payment of teachers from government institutions in Punjab will be according to UGC’s Seventh Pay Commission from 1 October 2022. [45]

Education

On 30 March 2022, Mann ordered that private schools cannot hike their school fees in the year 2022. He also ordered that no school can force the parents to make school-related purchases from exclusive stores. This was done to protect the consumers from imposed monopoly. [46] On 10 September 2022, he announced bus services for girl students in Punjab government schools. [45]

Agriculture

On 18 March, the day of the Holi festival, Mann announced a compensation of ₹1,010 million (US$12 million) for farmers whose cotton crops were damaged by the pink bollworm. [47]

Transportation

In June 2022, Mann announced Volvo bus service between IGI Airport and different Punjab cities of the state. The tariff charged by the PRTC and PEPSU buses for the Airport were announced at half the rates being charged by the private bus operators. Mann said that this service would break the monopoly of a few families in bus business with political links. [48]

Electricity

Fulfilling their election promise of providing free electricity, from 1 July 2022 the people in Punjab would get 300 units of free electricity. 73.39 lakh domestic consumers were estimated to benefit from the scheme. [49]

Health

On 15 August 2022, 75 Aam Aadmi Clinics were made functional. [50]

Language and Culture

On 19 November 2022, while giving a speech at Guru Nanak Dev University to commemorate Punjabi Language Month, Mann announced a government policy to require all public signboards to prominently feature Punjabi over other languages. He encouraged citizens to change their signs before 21 February 2023, after which the government will begin enforcing the rule. He also exhorted educational institutions to begin adding specialized Punjabi language courses, citing his perceived decline in the proper use of Punjabi pronunciation and grammatical rules. [51]

Electoral performance

Parliament: Lok Sabha

General Election 2014: Sangrur
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AAP Bhagwant Mann 533,237 48.47 Increase2.svg48.47
SAD Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa 3,21,51629.23Decrease2.svg4.90
INC Vijay Inder Singla 1,81,41017.50Decrease2.svg21.02
BSP Madan Bhatti8,4080.76
CPI Sukhdev Ram Sharma6,9340.63
Majority2,11,72119.24Increase2.svg14.85
Turnout 1,100,05677.21
AAP gain from INC Swing Increase2.svg34.75
General Election 2019: Sangrur
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AAP Bhagwant Mann 413,561 37.40 Decrease2.svg11.07
INC Kewal Singh Dhillon303,35027.43Increase2.svg9.93
SAD Parminder Singh Dhindsa263,49823.83Decrease2.svg5.40
SAD(A) Simranjit Singh Mann48,3654.37
LIP Jasraj Singh Longia20,0871.82
NOTA None of the Above6,4900.59Increase2.svg0.39
Majority1,10,2119.97Decrease2.svg10.46
Turnout 11,07,25672.40
AAP hold Swing Decrease2.svg10.5

Punjab Assembly

Punjab Assembly election, 2012: Lehra
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Rajinder Kaur Bhattal 44,706 37.27
SAD Sukhwant Singh4135134.48
PPoP Bhagwant Mann 2613621.79
BSP Jagjit Singh32322.69
Independent Rajvir Singh17251.44
Majority3355
Turnout 11994485.52
Registered electors [52]
Assembly Election 2017: Jalalabad, Punjab
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
SAD Sukhbir Singh Badal 75271
AAP Bhagwant Mann 56771
INC Ravneet Singh Bittu
Registered electors 194,511 [53]
SAD hold
2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election  : Dhuri [54]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AAP Bhagwant Mann 82,592 64.29
INC Dalvir Singh Goldy [55] 24,38618.98
SAD Parkash Chand Garg 6,9915.44
BJP Randeep Singh Deol5,4364.23
SAD(A) Narinder Singh4,4693.48
SSM Sarbjit Singh Alal1,1880.92
NOTA None of the Above7750.6
National Apni Party Sukhwinder Singh7260.57
Apni Ekta Party Pardeep Kumar5540.43
Independent Shakti Kumar Gupta4880.38
LIP Jaswinder Singh4570.36
Independent Vijay Syal2300.18
CPI(ML)L Harpreet Singh1660.13
Margin of victory58,20645.4
Total valid votes1,28,45877.32
Rejected ballots429
Turnout 1,28,97777.63
Registered electors 1,66,143 [56]
AAP gain from INC Swing

Philanthropy

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. [57]

Personal life

He is a comic poet who writes political satire. He is also a volleyball player. [58] He was married to Inderpreet Kaur until their divorce in 2015. They have a son (Dilshan) and a daughter (Seerat). [59] [60]

Bhagwant Mann married 32-year-old Gurpreet Kaur in 2022. She is a doctor by profession. [61] [62] [63] They have a girl born in March 2024. [64]

Addressing a rally in Barnala in January 2019, Bhagwant Mann said he had left consuming liquor on his mother's advice. [65]

Bhagwant Maan’s daughter Seerat accused him of physical abuse towards her and her mother, alcoholism, habitual lying. She also said that she will refer to him as CM Maan. [66]

Discography

Comedy

YearAlbumRecord label
2013Kulfi Garma Garam 2Amar Audio
2009Just Laugh Baki MaafM Series
2007Haas-Haas Ke T-Series
2005Bhagwant Mann Most WantedCreative Audio Productions
2004Kee Main Jhooth Boliya T-Series
2003Sawdhan! Age Bhagwant Mann T-Series
2002Bhagwant Mann Full Speed T-Series
2001Bhagwant Mann Non-Stop T-Series
2001Bhagwant Mann Hazir Ho T-Series
2000Sadi Billi Sanu Miaun T-Series
2000Bhagwant Mann 420Sun Music
1999Lallu Kare Kawaliya T-Series
1998Gustakhi Maaf T-Series
1997Rukawat Ke Liye Khed Hai T-Series
1997Khariya KhariyaTips
1996Kursi RaniTips
1995Jaagde RahoPeritone
1995Dhakka Start T-Series
1995Panj Duni VeehT-Series/MTL/AMC
1994Koko De Bachhe
Mummy Daddy Murdabaad		 T-Series
AMC United States
1994Bol Madaari BolPeritone
1994Mithiya Mircha T-Series
MTL Canada
1993Kulfi Garma Garam T-Series
MTL Canada
1992Gobhi Diye Kachiye VaparanayCreative Music Company

Musical

YearAlbumRecord label
2011Rangle Punjab Nu BachayinEagle
2010Aawaaz – The VoicePoint Zero
2001Dam Lai Lo T-Series
2000Jattan Da Munda Gaun LagiaSun Music

Filmography

YearFilm
2015 22g Tussi Ghaint Ho
2014 Police in Pollywood
2014Moga to Melbourne Via Chandigarh
2011 Hero Hitler in Love
2010 Sukhmani – Hope for Life
2010 Ekam – Son of Soil
2007 Apne
2001Sikandera
1998 Main Maa Punjab Dee
1996Sukha
1995Nain Preeto De
1994Tabaahi
1994Kachehri

Videography

YearAlbumRecord label
2011Chappa Chappa Charkha ChaleEagle
2010Jhanda Amli Kachahri VichEagle
2009Just Laugh Baki MaafM Series
2008My Name is MannEagle
2007Pappu Da DhabaEagle
2006Punjabi Bluff MasterEagle
2006Pappu Baneya NetaEagle
2006Pappu Bhaa Ji M.B.B.S.Eagle
2005Pappu Pass Ho GayaEagle
2004Kee Main Jhooth Boliya T-Series
2003Sawdhan Agge Bhagwant Mann T-Series
2002Bhagwant Mann Full Speed T-Series
2002Bhagwant Mann Non-Stop Vol 2 T-Series
2001Bhagwant Mann Non-Stop Vol 1 T-Series
1999Bhagwant Mann Hazir Ho T-Series

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