{"id":297891,"date":"2022-03-16T16:32:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T11:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=297891"},"modified":"2022-03-17T14:21:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T08:51:29","slug":"pm-modi-bhagwant-mann-oath-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/pm-modi-bhagwant-mann-oath-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi congratulates Bhagwant Mann, says will work together for Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated Aam Aadmi Party leader Bhagwant Mann as he took oath as Punjab&#8217;s 18th Chief Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulating Mann for becoming the Punjab&#8217;s youngest Chief Minister, PM Modi assured him that the Central and the state government will work together for the growth of Punjab and the welfare of the people of state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to Shri <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BhagwantMann?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BhagwantMann<\/a> Ji on taking oath as Punjab CM. Will work together for the growth of Punjab and welfare of the state\u2019s people.<\/p>&mdash; Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1504020972898500609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mann took oath as Punjab CM today at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. Governor Banwarilal Purohit administered him oath of the office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bhagwant Mann&#8217;s swearing-in ceremony which was supposed to start at 12.30 pm, had been delayed by an hour and started around 1.25 pm. After the ceremony, the Punjab CM said his government will address issues like unemployment, corruption and farmers&#8217; plight which are plaguing the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the line of Delhi, the newly formed APP government will also work on improving the condition of schools and hospitals in Punjab, Mann said in his speech. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delhi Chief Minister and the Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, Delhi minister Satyendar Jain, and other AAP leaders have attended the ceremony wearing yellow (basanti) turbans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from AAP leaders who were wearing yellow turban, a number of singers and artists, including Gurdas Mann, Karamjit Anmol, singer-turned-politician were also be presented in the ceremony wearing yellow turbans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the request of AAP in to attend Mann&#8217;s oath ceremony wearing yellow turbans, the men were wearing yellow turbans while women draped a yellow dupatta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AAP has scripted history by winning 92 seats in the 117-member Punjab Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, Delhi minister Satyendar Jain, and other AAP leaders have attended the ceremony wearing yellow (basanti) turbans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":296811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"PM Modi congratulates Bhagwant Mann, says will work together for Punjab\n#BhagwantMann #PunjabCM","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,4],"tags":[1252,341,117694,165,67528],"yst_prominent_words":[25304,24745,25298,15399,9828,20926,3811,21938,3688,31724,8438,60467,6635,61277],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2022\/03\/13144849\/bhagwant-mann-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297891"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=297891"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=297891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->