'What a shame': Swati Maliwal accuses Bhagwant Mann of arriving 'drunk' in Punjab assembly

NEW DELHI: BJP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal connected Friday accused Punjab main minister Bhagwant Mann of arriving “drunk” astatine the legislative assembly.In a societal media station connected X, Maliwal shared a clip of Mann addressing the assembly and said that Mann should acquisition an “alcohol test” and, if recovered guilty, beryllium removed from the station of main minister.

“Today again, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann arrived astatine the ‘temple of democracy,’ the Punjab Assembly, allegedly nether the power of alcohol.This antheral goes to gurdwaras drunk, goes to temples drunk, utilized to travel to the Lok Sabha drunk, attends authorities meetings drunk, and adjacent drank truthful overmuch overseas that helium was deboarded from a plane,” Maliwal said.

“Before the elections, helium had placed his manus connected his mother’s caput and promised that helium would ne'er portion again.

The CM of a delicate borderline authorities similar Punjab is allegedly intoxicated each the time… signing files portion drunk. What a shame,” she added.“A idiosyncratic who is distant from intoxicant lone portion sleeping—how tin helium tally Punjab? CM Mann should acquisition an intoxicant trial and, if recovered guilty, beryllium removed from the station of main minister,” she added.This comes days aft Swati Maliwal, on with Raghav Chadha and 5 different Rajya Sabha members from the Aam Aadmi Party, discontinue and decided to merge their faction with the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Reacting to the controversy, person of absorption Partap Singh Bajwa demanded an contiguous Alco-meter and dope investigating of Mann and each MLAs during the ongoing league of Punjab assembly.Elected an RS MP successful January 2024, Maliwal’s fallout with the enactment began conscionable a fewer months later, successful May, erstwhile she alleged that she was physically assaulted by a adjacent adjutant of AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal astatine the latter’s house—a assertion she has repeated aft her exit.This is not the archetypal clip Mann has courted controversy. In 2022, the absorption targeted the Punjab main curate and alleged that helium was deplaned from a Delhi-bound formation astatine Frankfurt airdrome arsenic helium was “drunk,” a complaint denied by the ruling AAP arsenic baseless.