Bhagwant Mann is AAP’s CM candidate for Punjab assembly polls: Kejriwal

TIL Desk/National/Chandigarh/ Bhagwant Mann will be the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) chief ministerial face for the Punjab Assembly polls, party chief Arvind Kejriwal announced on Tuesday.

The 48-year-old two-time Sangrur MP’s name was announced at a public event where Kejriwal declared the result of the AAP’s ‘Janta Chunegi Apna CM’ drive in which it had asked the people of Punjab as to who should be the party’s chief ministerial candidate.

Mann is the party’s state unit chief. The party had received 2.1 million responses under its campaign to elect its CM face for the Assembly polls, party leaders said.

Addressing the media here, Kejriwal said, “Out of 21.59 lakh votes received, many people included my name. I had earlier said that I am not in the race. We declared those votes (naming Kejriwal) as invalid. Out of the remaining, 93.3 per cent people named Sardar Bhagwant Mann’s name”.

On the second slot was (Punjab Congress chief) Navjot Singh Sidhu, who got 3.6 per cent votes, added Kejriwal. Bhagwant Mann is officially declared as Punjab’s next CM and AAP’s CM face, said Kejriwal.