Bhagwant Mann of Aam Aadmi Party will not take oath at Raj Bhavan in Punjab

Newly elected Aam Aadmi Party leader and chief ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann on Thursday announced that his swearing-in ceremony will be held at Khatkarkalan in Nawanshahr district, the native village of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. He also announced that government offices will not have the chief minister’s picture, as is the custom. “The swearing-in ceremony will not be held at Raj Bhavan, but at Khatkarkalan. The date will be announced later,” he said in a speech after his victory at Dhuri.
Bhagwant Mann declared that “no government office will put up the Chief Minister’s picture, instead there will be pictures of Bhagat Singh and BR Ambedkar.”

Underlining the scale of the Aam Aadmi Party’s victory by naming the lost stalwarts, the AAP leader said, “Bade (Prakash Singh) Badal Sahib lost, Sukhbir (Badal) lost from Jalalabad, Captains Patiala, Sidhu and Majithia. (Charanjit Singh) Channi has lost in both the seats.”

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Mann said his first assignment after taking office would be to make schools, health, industry, agriculture profitable, women’s safety and improving sports infrastructure. “You will start seeing change in Punjab within a month,” he promised.

Appealing to the people to work together, Mann said those who did not vote for the Aam Aadmi Party need not worry as the government would work for all sections of the society.

The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday marched towards a unilateral victory, leading in 91 of the 117 assembly seats in Punjab after the first six hours of counting of votes. Party’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal congratulated the people of the state for the “revolution”.