A day after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chalked a humongous victory in the Punjab Assembly elections, the party's chief ministerial candidate for Punjab, Bhagwant Mann, met party's national convener Arvind Kejriwal at the latter's Delhi residence on Friday, 11 March.
A video shared by AAP on Twitter showed Mann touching the feet of Kejriwal as a sign of respect, before embracing him and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
"My younger brother Bhagwant Mann will take oath as the Chief Minister of Punjab. Today he came to my house to invite me to for the oath taking. I am sure that as a Chief Minister, Bhagwant will fulfill every expectation of the people of Punjab," the Delhi chief minister said in a tweet after the meeting.
"There was a meeting with the dear son of Punjab and the newly elected Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann ji at the house of the National Convener Arvind Kejriwal ji. Congratulating them on the victory and also wishing them all the best for a big change in the next five years, fulfilling the expectations of the people of Punjab," Manish Sisodia tweeted in Hindi, sharing photos of the meeting.
Mann To Take Oath in Bhagat Singh's Village on 16 March
Mann will take oath as chief minister on 16 March. On Thursday, Mann had announced that he would take oath as the chief minister of the state at Bhagat Singh's ancestral village Khatkar Kalan in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district, instead of Raj Bhawan.
"I am going to meet party convener Arvind Kejriwal, will give you date by today evening. Will meet the Governor tomorrow, followed by oath-taking in Bhagat Singh's village Khatkar Kalan," he had been quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
The AAP will reportedly hold a legislative party meeting in Chandigarh on Friday evening, where the newly elected MLAs will unanimously elect CM candidate Bhagwant Mann as their leader.
Mann on Thursday won the Dhuri seat with a margin of 58,206 votes as AAP scored its maiden victory in the state. The party has won 92 out of 117 seats in the Punjab Assembly.
While addressing a crowd of supporters outside his house in Sangrur on Thursday, Mann, who could be seen standing alongside his mother Harpal Kaur and sister Manpreet Kaur, promised a wave of change.
"Now, you will not have to go to the offices of government employees. Government officers won't hinder your work by making excuses. Now the public servants will come to your houses and localities to do their job," he said.
He also took to Twitter to dedicate his thumping victory to Bhagat Singh and BR Ambedkar. "This fatwa of victory given by the revolutionary people of Dhuri is dedicated to Shaheed Bhagat Singh Ji and Babasaheb Ambedkar Ji."
(With inputs from ANI.)
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