"Call Bhagwant Mann After 4 pm": Charanjit Channi On Drinking Allegations
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Punjab Polls: Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi said that AAP's Chief Ministerial Candidate Bhagwant Mann goes everywhere drunk, even to the Parliament and Gurudwara.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)'s Bhagwant Mann has not stopped drinking despite swearing off alcohol publicly a few years ago, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi alleged today in an interview to NDTV.
Bhagwant Mann, AAP's presumptive Chief Minister for Punjab, has emphatically denied reneging on his vow to quit drinking at a public event in 2019, with his mother by his side.
"How can he run Punjab? He goes everywhere drunk! He goes to parliament drunk, he goes to the Gurudwara drunk. He starts in daytime," Mr Channi, who was recently named the Congress's Chief Minister candidate, told NDTV.
When he was reminded of Mr Mann's public pledge in his mother's presence, Mr Channi claimed: "He took an oath in his mother's name on stage, but he could not give up drinking."
