Bhagwant Mann: Punjab CM-designate Bhagwant Mann, on March 14, 2022, submitted his resignation from membership of Lok Sabha to Speaker Om Birla on March 14, 2022.

Key Highlights:

• The 48-year-old was an elected Lok Sabha MP from the Sangrur constituency.
• He was elected the leader of the AAP Legislature Party at a meeting of the party MLAs in Mohali on March 11.
• The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA-elect will be sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Punjab in the native village of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh on March 16, 2022.
• He met Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit at Raj Bhavan in Chandigarh on March 12 to stake a claim to form the government in the state.

Punjab Election Results 2022:

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won a historic victory in Punjab Assembly Elections 2022 by claiming 92 seats in the 117-member assembly, decimating both Congress and Akali Dal and reducing them to 18 and 3 seats respectively.

About Punjab:

• Punjab is a state in northern India.
• It is bounded by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir to the north, Himachal Pradesh to the northeast, Haryana to the south and southeast, and Rajasthan to the southwest and by the country of Pakistan to the west.
• Punjab in its present form came into existence on 1 November 1966.
• The city of Chandigarh, within the Chandigarh union territory, is the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana.
• Punjab means "The Land of Five Waters", which are Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Sutlej, and Beas.
• The current Governor of Punjab is Banwarilal Purohit respectively.