Bhagwant MannFrom infopedia the free encyclopedia

Early politics (2011–2014)

Mann joined Manpreet Singh Badal's People's Party of Punjab in 2011 and lost the 2012 assembly election from Lehra. In March 2014 he joined the Aam Aadmi Party.

Member of Parliament, Sangrur (2014–2022)

• 2014: Won Sangrur in his first Lok Sabha election, defeating former Union minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa by 2,11,721 votes.
• 2017: Contested the Punjab assembly election from Jalalabad against Sukhbir Singh Badal and lost. He was AAP Punjab convener in 2017–18 and again from 2019.
• 2019: Re-elected from Sangrur by 1,10,211 votes. He was AAP's only MP in the 17th Lok Sabha.
• In Parliament he raised farmers' issues and opposed the 2020 farm laws.

Chief Minister of Punjab (2022–present)

AAP named Mann its chief ministerial candidate in January 2022 after a public phone-in poll. In the 2022 Punjab election AAP won 92 of 117 seats, and Mann won Dhuri by 58,206 votes. He resigned as MP and took the oath on 16 March 2022 at Khatkar Kalan.

• VIP security: Police security was withdrawn from more than 100 former MLAs and ministers.
• Jobs: He announced 25,000 government jobs at his first cabinet meeting and moved to regularise contractual employees.
• Punjabi language: Required Punjabi to be shown prominently on public signboards.
• Anti-drug drive: His government has run a statewide campaign against drug trafficking. In October 2026 he reviewed it at the Punjab Police Academy, Phillaur, after the murder of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota in Mansa.
• 2025 floods: During the August–September 2025 floods, which affected about 3.5 lakh people, his government announced relief and compensation and sought a special package from the Centre. The BJP and Congress blamed the state's preparedness, which the government rejected.

CBI searches (October 2026)

On 6 October 2026 the CBI searched Mann's camp office in Chandigarh and other locations in a corruption case against his Officer on Special Duty, Rajbir Singh Ghuman, and five others. The probe had been ordered by the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Mann called the searches political vendetta by the BJP ahead of the 2027 Punjab election and said the agencies would "return empty-handed". BJP leaders said the probe was ordered by the court. The allegations are still under investigation.