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The regular ‘band, bajaa, baraat’ were missing but the festivities seemed intact as Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann turned groom for his wedding with a doctor from Kurukshetra at his home on Thursday.
\nIt was a private ceremony without the usual crowds, so much a part of the big, fat Indian wedding. Though few details were available, visuals on television and Twitter showed Mann and his bride dressed in red at the Anand Karaj ceremony.<\/p>\n
Aam Aadmi Party colleague Raghav Chadha also shared some images on Twitter showing Mann, in his regular yellow turban and a gold coloured kurta-pyjama, with party chief Arvind Kejriwal and others.<\/p>\n
Mann (48), the first chief minister of the state to get married while in office, is tying the knot with Dr Gurpreet Kaur from Pehowa in Kurukshetra in Haryana.<\/p>\n
This is Mann’s second marriage. He separated from his first wife in 2015, they have two children, daughter Seerat Kaur (21) and son Dilshan (17).<\/p>\n
Tight security arrangements were in place at the chief minister’s home in Sector 2.<\/p>\n
Gurpreet Kaur (30) shared a picture of herself on Twitter and wrote, “Din Shagna Da Chadya (the day of marriage has arrived)”.<\/p>\n
She also thanked AAP leaders for their congratulatory messages.<\/p>\n
According to party insiders, the wedding, being solemnised according to Sikh rituals, was attended by Mann’s mother and sister and just a few guests, including Kejriwal and his family.<\/p>\n
Kejriwal told reporters at the airport, Today is a day of immense happiness that my younger brother and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann ji is getting married and is making a new beginning.<\/p>\n
“May God bless him with a happy married life and both (the couple) always remain happy.<\/p>\n
AAP MP Chadha shared several pictures on his Twitter handle, one post showing Mann and himself on a sofa. He quoted a Punjabi song of celebration, “Saade veer da vyah, Saanu gode gode chah”, as the caption.<\/p>\n
There were also pictures of the groom at his festooned home, walking under a canopy held up by Chadha among others, and at the ceremony.<\/p>\n
Chadha said, A new chapter in CM Bhagwant Mann’s life is going to start today. I congratulate Mann saab’s family, his mother and sister. It will be a small function. Only family members will attend.”<\/p>\n
“We all are happy that happiness has returned to Mann saab’s family after a long time. It was his mother’s dream to see her son getting settled again. Today, that dream is going to come true,” he told reporters.<\/p>\n
Gurpreet Kaur completed her MBBS from a private university in Haryana in 2018. She has two elder sisters who are settled abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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