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 Bhagwant Singh Mann (born on 17 October 1973) is an Indian politician who is the 17th and current Chief Minister of Punjab. He leads the cabinet ministry of Punjab. He is a former actor, comedian and satirist. He previously served two terms as the Member of parliament from Lok Sabha representing Sangrur constituency, Punjab from 2014 until his resignation in 2022. 

Early life Mann was born in a Sikh family on 17 October, 1973 to father Mohinder Singh and mother Harpal Kaur in Satoj village of Sangrur district, Punjab, India. He pursued his graduation from Shaheed Udham Singh Government College, Sunam. 

Acting career Mann participated in youth comedy festivals and inter-college competitions. He won two gold medals at a competition at the Punjabi University, Patiala for the Shaheed Udham Singh Government College, Sunam. Mann developed comedy routines about typical Indian issues such as politics, business and sport. His first comedy album was with comedian Jagtar Jaggi. Together, they made a television program called Jugnu Kehnda Hai for Alpha ETC Punjabi. Ten years later, they parted ways. Mann then formed a comedy partnership with Rana Ranbir. Together, they made the television program, Jugnu Mast Mast for Alpha ETC Punjabi. In 2006, Mann and Jaggi reunited and toured Canada and England with their show, No Life With Wife.

In 2008, Mann competed in the Great Indian Laughter Challenge on Star Plus which increased his audience. 

Bhagwant Mann also acted in National Award winning Film "Main Maa Punjab Dee" Directed by Balwant Dullat 

Mann acted in Jugnu Hazir Hai on MH One. 

Convener of AAP Punjab In 2017, Mann was appointed as the convener of AAP Punjab. In 2018 he resigned from the convener post after Arvind Kejriwal tendered an unconditional apology to Bikram Singh Majithia over Kejriwal's allegations about Majithia's involvement in the drug mafia case. In 2017, he contested assembly elections in Jalalabad against Sukhbir Singh Badal and Ravneet Singh Bittu. He lost the elections to Badal by 18,500 votes.  

In January 2019, Mann was appointed as the convener of AAP Punjab for a second time. His political rivals had in past criticized him over alcohol use. Mann has denied these allegations. In 2019, during a party rally in Barnala, Mann announced that he had denounced alcohol and swore never to touch it again. In June 2021, MLA and deputy leader of the opposition in Punjab assembly, Saravjit Kaur Manuke held hunger strike along with AAP activists to protest against the inaction of the Punjab government in the payment of post-matric scholarship amount of Dalit students. Mann said that the protest by AAP members had forced the Punjab government then led by CM Amarinder Singh to release the funds amounting to 200 crore as 40% share of the amount that Punjab government had to pay.

Member of Parliament First term (2014–2019) In May 2014, he was elected to the 16th Lok Sabha from Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency after defeating Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa from Shiromani Akali Dal. He got 533,237 total votes and won election with a margin of 211,721 votes.

Parliamentary Committee assignments 1 September 2014 – 25 May 2019: Member, Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice. Member of the Consultative Committee, Ministry of Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water and Sanitation 11 December 2014 – 25 May 2019 : Member, Joint Committee on Offices of Profit

Second term (2019 - 2022) In May 2019, he was re-elected to 17th Lok Sabha from Sangrur constituency in the 2019 Indian general election. He won his second term in the Parliament with a margin of 110,211 votes. He got 413,561 votes while contesting against Kewal Singh Dhillon from Indian National Congress and Parminder Singh Dhindsa from Shiromani Akali Dal. He is only Member of parliament from Aam Aadmi Party in the lower house (Lok Sabha) of the parliament. On 18 January 2022, he was chosen as the Chief Minister of Punjab candidate from the Aam Aadmi Party for the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. The selection was reportedly done by polling from the public and the results were declared by the party chief Arvind Kejriwal. On 9 February, Mann raised issues about farmers in the Lok Sabha. The payment to sugarcane farmers for the year 2020-21 and 2021-22 had been pending. He appealed for clearing the due early along with interest. He asked for compensation for the losses in cotton farmers due to the pest attack. he asked that the Union government should recognize the farmers who died during the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest.

Parliamentary Committee assignments 13 September 2019 onwards: Member, Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Member, Consultative Committee, Committee on External Affairs In 2021, the Parliamentary Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution had submitted a report to the Union Government recommending implementation of the Essential Commodities Act, 2020. The Essential Commodities Act, 2020 was one among the three controversial 2020 Indian agriculture acts that led to the year long 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest. Mann publicly released his statement that was made during the Committee meeting on 5 June 2020. In his statement, Mann had raised concerns that these farm laws would increase hoarding. Removal of onions and tomato from the list of Essential Commodities, would lead to price rise due to illegal stockpiling to increase the price and then selling at higher prices. This will create hardships for the poor. He also raised the issue of hoarding of potatoes. Mann contested in the 2022 Punjab Assembly elections and won. AAP won a large majority of 92 out of total 117 seats. Mann was designated as the CM. Two days before taking the oath as CM of Punjab, Mann resigned from his post of MP Sangrur on 14 March 2022.

Chief Minister of Punjab Main article: Mann ministry On 18 January 2022, he was chosen as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate for the Chief Minister of Punjab in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election, based on a public poll in which AAP claims 93% of the voters wanted Bhagwant Mann as the chief ministerial candidate. On 10 March, the election results were announced. Mann won from Dhuri Assembly Constituency with a big margin of 58,206 votes. Under his leadership, AAP had won 92 seats out of 117 in Punjab Assembly Elections 2022. The Aam Aadmi Party gained a full majority in the sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly. After the results Arvind Kejriwal re-iterated that Mann would swear-in as the Chief Minister of Punjab soon. Mann announced that he would be taking the oath as the chief minister at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. During his speech after the election results, he announced that Bhagat Singh and B.R. Ambedkar's photos would be in the government office instead of the former Chief Minister. On 11 March, he was elected as the leader of the AAP legislative party 

On 16 March, Mann took oath as the 17th Chief Minister of Punjab. At the age of 48 years, Mann became the youngest Chief Minister of Punjab since the 1970s. The oath-taking ceremony was held at Khatkar Kalan village on 16 March, when the term of the Fifteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly expired. Khatkar Kalan is the birth place of revolutionary Bhagat Singh, who inspired Mann. Mann ministry is the Cabinet of Punjab headed by the Chief Minister.

Ending VIP culture Even before taking the oath, CM designate Mann took steps to end the VIP culture and met the Director General of Police. Next day the police DGP in charge of security ordered to withdraw police security from 122 former MLAs and ministers. A total of 384 policemen involved in the security of those politicians were transferred to their parent unit. Mann had stated that the police force was needed for security of the people and not VIPs. The security of former chief ministers was continued as they had been provided security on the instructions of the Union Home Ministry. AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal said Mann had "removed the security of old ministers and gave security to the public".

Employment On 19 March 2022, during the first Cabinet meeting, Mann announced his decision to fill 25,000 job openings in various departments of Punjab government. 10,000 of those vacancies were in the Punjab Police. On 22 March, he announced his decision to make the 35,000 employees in the state working on temporary, contractual basis into permanent government employees. He will bring a bill in the assembly to this effect. Announcing his decision he said, "I don't want these teachers protesting on the roads, I had promised to regularize their services, if we are voted to power and I am fulfilling my promise."

Education On 30 March 2022, Mann ordered that the private schools cannot hike their school fees in the year 2022. He also ordered that no school can force the parents to make school related purchase from exclusive stores. This was done to protect the consumers from imposed monopoly

Agriculture On 18 March, the day of the Holi festival, Mann announced a compensation of ₹1,010 million (US$13 million) for farmers whose cotton crops were damaged by the pink bollworm. 

Anti-Corruption  Mann launched an anti-corruption helpline on Martyrs Day on 23 March. The helpline number 9501200200 was announced for registering complaint for incidents of corruption. Mann announced that people could share the audio or video evidence of incidents of corruption and share with the helpline number. He said that action will be taken on the complaints.