Bhagwant Mann to Take Oath as Punjab CM on March 16; Swearing-in for Cabinet Ministers to be Held Later

The oath taking ceremony will be held on March 16 at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, in Nawanshahr district where Mann will be sworn in as the new chief minister.

New Delhi: AAP’s Punjab Chief Minister-designate Bhagwant Mann will take oath on March 16 (Wednesday) at Khatkarkalan, the ancestral village of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh in Nawanshahr district. However, 16 MLAs of the Punjab state cabinet will take oath as ministers at a later date, said sources on Sunday.

Earlier on Sunday, ahead of the AAP’s roadshow to celebrate its stupendous win in the Punjab polls, party national convener Arvind Kejriwal along with Chief Minister-designate Bhagwant Mann on Sunday paid obeisance at the Golden temple in Amritsar. CM Kejriwal was accompanied by his Deputy, Manish Sisodia and Senior leader Raghav Chadha.

Kejriwal and Mann will also pay obeisance at the Durgiana Mandir and the Sri Ram Tirath Mandir. They will later take part in a roadshow in Amritsar to celebrate the party’s landslide victory and thank voters.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) romped home by winning 92 seats in the 117-member Punjab Assembly. It decimated the Congress and the SAD-BSP combine and its candidates defeated several stalwarts, including Channi, SAD patriarch Parkash Singh Badal and former chief minister Amarinder Singh.

Mann, who won from the Dhuri seat by over 58,000 votes, was elected the AAP’s legislature party leader at a meeting of the party MLAs in Mohali on Friday. He met Governor Banwarilal Purohit at Raj Bhavan in Chandigarh on Saturday to stake a claim to form the government.