After registering a landslide victory in Punjab Assembly elections, Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Chief Minister-designate Bhagwant Mann and his Cabinet colleagues were sworn in today i.e., on March 16. Mann's oath ceremony took place at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, in Nawanshahr district.
From today the responsibility of Punjab has been given to the 17th Chief Minister of Punjab Bhagwant Mann. In terms of tenure, Bhagwant Mann is the 25th Chief Minister of Punjab. Bhagwant Mann has become the second youngest Chief Minister of Punjab at the age of 49. Earlier, Parkash Singh Badal of Akali Dal had become the Chief Minister in 1970 at the age of 43.
Yellow turbans, the trademark of comic-turned-politician Bhagwant Mann, filled the village Khatkar Kalan in response to his call to people to wear "Basanti turbans and dupattas" to his oath. Yellow was the theme of the venue and decor.
Along with Bhagwant Mann, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodiya were present on the stage.
AAP won a landslide victory in Punjab, winning 92 seats in the 117-seat Punjab Assembly and decimating incumbent Congress. Mr. Mann won by nearly 60,000 votes in the Dhuri assembly constituency in the Sangrur district.