AAP MP Bhagwat Mann says ‘I quit alcohol, people can’t defame me now’  

Bhagwant Mann.

Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Bhagwant Mann, who has received heavy criticism from political opponents for “excessive drinking” said he has quit drinking alcohol on his mother’s advice, on Sunday. The Lok Sabha member from Punjab’s Sangrur earned high praise from party supremo Arvind Kejriwal for “giving up alcohol”.

Mann said, “My political opponents often level accusations against me, saying ‘Bhagwant Mann takes liquor and remains intoxicated day and night’. Brothers, it always pained me when I saw old videos of myself on social media where I was being defamed.”

Mann, who is all set contest the Lok Sabha elections from Sangrur seat again, further added, “I admit I used to take liquor occasionally. But my political opponents maligned me. Today my mother is here. She had told me that people defamed me excessively on the television and then asked me to stop taking liquor. Now they cannot defame me.”

AAP MP Harinder Singh Khalsa, in 2016, filed a complaint against Mann to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, and requested her to change his seat in Parliament as Mann, who sat next to him, was “stinking of alcohol”.

Related