Punjab Assembly Session 2022: Newly elected MLAs take oath on Day 1
Punjab Assembly Session 2022: The three-day special session of Punjab Vidhan Sabha started on Thursday, a day after Bhagwant Mann took the oath as Punjab Chief Minister. The newly elected MLAs were sworn-in in the Assembly.
The three-day session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha is scheduled to be held on March 17, 21, and 22. Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Wednesday administered oath to Inderbir Singh Nijjar as Protem Speaker of the State Legislative Assembly. The development came ahead of Punjab Assembly Session 2022.
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Aam Aadmi Party stalwart Bhagwant Mann was on Wednesday sworn in as the Chief Minister of Punjab in the presence of an august gathering, led by AAP national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Mann was administered the oath by Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit. A grand ceremony of the swearing-in was organized at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.
The AAP registered a landslide victory in the recently concluded Punjab Assembly polls, winning 92 seats, pushing most of its rivals to the margins. The Congress won 18 seats in the 117-member Assembly.
Mann, who was contesting from Dhuri Assembly constituency in Sangrur district, won by a margin of 58,206 votes over Congress' Dalvir Singh Goldy.
As the AAP wins Punjab, it is the party's maiden victory in the state and a vast improvement from its performance in the 2017 elections when the party had finished behind Congress.
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