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OFFICE TUGS AND PUSHES EXPLAIN MANN'S SNIPPY SHOW WITH FARMERS
The Morning Standard
|March 06, 2025
When ‘livid’ Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann walked out of a meeting with the state’s farmer unions that announced a week-long protest in Chandigarh from March 5, it was symptomatic of the pulls and pressures of office he has been failing to deal with for quite some time.
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After the BJP wrested Delhi from the AAP in the recent assembly polls, Mann lost what little leverage he had in running his government without interference. It is common knowledge that party convenor Arvind Kejriwal handles decision-making in the state government through his personal secretary, Bibhav Kumar. Bibhav has a history of intemperate behaviour. He was arrested for assaulting the party’s rajya Sabha member, Swati Maliwal, at Kejriwal’s official residence last May. When Delhi fell, rumours of a vertical split in Punjab’s AAP chapter prompted Kejriwal to call a meeting of his par
This story is from the March 06, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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