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Chandigarh: On 26 June, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, along with his wife Dr Gurpreet Kaur, daughter Nayamat Kaur, sister Manpreet Kaur and mother-in-law Raj Kaur, landed near Jalandhar on a helicopter and headed to the upscale Royal Estate...
Today, I moved into a house in Jalandhar with my family..
With the Jalandhar West assembly constituency a seat reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC) going to bypolls on 10 July, Mann has been camping round the clock in Jalandhar to ensure the victory of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Mohinder Bhagat, who is pitted against former MLA Sheetal Angural, Surinder Kaur of the Congress and Surjit Kaur of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)...
Asked what he thinks of Mann camping in Jalandhar ahead of the bypolls, Punjab BJP chief Sunil Jakhar compared Manns position to the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty: All the kings horses and all the kings me couldnt put Humpty together again...
Kang, however, said that Mann shifting his residence to Jalandhar is not just for the purpose of assembly bye-election, but also because he would keep this as his second residence and camp office for the Doaba and Majha regions of Punjab for the rest of his tenure...
