Sangrur MP and senior AAP leader Bhagwant Mann, who has been under fire from opponents over his ‘alcohol problem’, announced in a rally Sunday that he has given up drinking, much to the satisfaction of Arvind Kejriwal, the national convenor of the party, who was present at the rally.
Mann said he had been “unfairly targeted” for being an alcoholic by political opponents and claimed that from January 1, he had quit drinking. He said after Sunday’s rally, he would go to Gurdwara Gursagar Mastuana Sahib, near Sangrur, to pray to this effect. Speaking in the presence of his mother, who was seated on the stage, he said his mother too had been asking him to quit the habit.