{"id":336291,"date":"2022-03-16T02:52:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T08:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=336291"},"modified":"2022-03-16T02:52:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T08:22:56","slug":"bhagwant-mann-sworn-in-as-punjab-chief-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bhagwant-mann-sworn-in-as-punjab-chief-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhagwant Mann sworn in as Punjab Chief Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-336292\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Capture-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"778\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/03\/Capture-3.jpg 778w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/03\/Capture-3-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/03\/Capture-3-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/03\/Capture-3-696x396.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2022\/03\/Capture-3-738x420.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>AAP leader Bhagwant Mann was sworn in as the Punjab Chief Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit administered the oath of office and secrecy to Bhagwant Mann in the swearing-in ceremony that took place at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh in Punjab&#8217;s Shaheed Bhagat Singh (SBS) Nagar district.<\/p>\n<p>Mann took oath in Punjabi. Besides newly-elected AAP MLAs, Delhi Chief Minister &amp; Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, and other leaders wearing yellow turbans took part in the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The AAP romped home winning 92 seats in the 117-member Punjab Assembly, decimating the Congress and the SAD-BSP combine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AAP leader Bhagwant Mann was sworn in as the Punjab Chief Minister. Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit administered the oath of office and secrecy to Bhagwant Mann in the swearing-in ceremony that took place at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh in Punjab&#8217;s Shaheed Bhagat Singh (SBS) Nagar district. Mann took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":336292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336293,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336291\/revisions\/336293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/336292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}