New Delhi: chief minister of punjab Bhagwant Mann He sparked controversy on Friday after the opposition accused him of arriving at the Legislative Assembly “drunk”.Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly Partap Singh Bajwa has demanded immediate breathalyser and doping tests of the Chief Minister and all MPs during the ongoing session of the Assembly.Swati Maliwal, a BJP MP who recently left the Aam Aadmi Party, also shared a clip of Mann addressing a rally and said he should undergo a “breathalyzer test” and be removed as chief minister if found guilty.“Today, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann once again came to the ‘Temple of Democracy’, the Punjab Assembly, allegedly under the influence of alcohol. This is a man who went to the gurdwara drunkenly, went to the temple drunkenly, once came to the Lok Sabha drunkenly, attended government meetings drunkenly, and even drank so much abroad that he was thrown off a plane,” Maliwal said.“Before the election, he put his hand on his mother’s head and promised that he would never drink alcohol again. The chief minister of a sensitive border state like Punjab has allegedly been drunk… drunkenly signing documents. What a shame,” she added.A few days ago, Swati Maliwal along with Raghav Chadha and five other Lok Sabha members of the Aam Aadmi Party quit and decided to merge their faction with the Bharatiya Janata Party.Maliwal was elected as an RS MP in January 2024, and her relationship with the party soured a few months later, in May, when she claimed she was physically assaulted by a close aide at the house of AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal – a claim she reiterated after quitting.This isn’t the first time Mann has caused controversy. In 2022, the opposition targeted the Punjab chief minister, claiming he was deboarded from a Delhi-bound flight at Frankfurt airport because he was “drunk”, a charge the ruling AAP denied as baseless.
