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             Bhagwant Mann weds a doctor, joins the



            politicians who got hitched while in office





           Punjab CM’s wedding with Dr Gurpreet Kaur was a private affair that was only attended by a selected few

              including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chaddha


        OUR BUREAU                                                                                            Here are some of those politicians:
        Lucknow/New Delhi                                                                                           Prafulla Kumar Mahanta
              unjab CM Bhagwant Mann                                                                              Mahanta became the Chief Min-
              tied the knot with Dr Gurpreet                                                                  ister of Assam in December 1985 and
        PKaur on Thursday in a tradi-                                                                         held office till 1990. It was during his
        tional Sikh ‘Anand Karaj’ wedding                                                                     tenure in 1988 that he got married to
        ceremony. Among the attendees of                                                                      Jayashree Goswami Mahanta, who
        the low-key intimate wedding were                                                                     was a writer and later represented
        Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejri-                                                                    Assam in the Rajya Sabha between
        wal and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)                                                                         1999 and 2001.
        MP Raghav Chaddha. Though  few                                                                                HD Kumaraswamy
        details  were  available of the CM’s
        private wedding, Raghav Chadha                                                                            Kumaraswamy was the CM of
        shared a picture when the celebra-                                                                    Karnataka from 2006 to 2007. He
        tions commenced with Mann arriving                                                                    first got married in 1986 and in 2006,
        under a ‘Phulkari’ dupatta in a golden                                                                during his time as the Chief Minister
        groom’s attire.                                                                                       he married Kannada actor Radhika,
            He also shared an image where                                                                     though the former Karnataka CM
        he  and Delhi chief minister Arvind                                                                   did not disclose it back then. In 2010,
        Kejriwal were seen taking the Punjab   Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann ties the knot with Dr Gurpreet Kaur in a close-knit   Radhika herself revealed that she
        CM to the wedding place which was               ceremony, at his residence, in Chandigarh on Thursday.  had secretly married Kumaraswamy.
        Mann’s Chandigarh residence.                                                                                   Virbhadra Singh
            In another pic, both the groom
        and bride, Dr Gurpreet Kaur, were                                                                         After being elected to the Lok
        seen standing together with folded                                                                    Sabha in 1962, 1967, and 1971, Vir-
        hands  during  the  ceremony  along                                                                   bhadra first became the Chief Min-
        with the other attendees present in                                                                   ister of Himachal Pradesh in 1983
        the background. “Waheguru Ji Apne                                                                     and served till 1990. It was during
        Bacche Utte Aashirwad Banaye Ra-                                                                      this period in 1985 that he tied the
        kheo,” it was captioned by Raghav.                                                                    know for the second time by marry-
            Gurpreet had donned a bright                                                                      ing Prathibha Singh, who is currently
        red  lehenga  for  her  wedding.  She                                                                 a Lok Sabha MP from Mandi.
        rounded up her look with heavy gold                                                                             Babul Supriyo
        jewelry which included bangles, a
        necklace and maang tika.                                                                                  Babul Supriyo married air host-
                                                                                                              ess Rachna Sharma while serving as
        Mann  was  divorced from his                                                                          a minister in the PM Narendra Modi
        first wife almost six years back.                                                                     government in 2019. This was his
        His former wife Inderpreet Kaur                                                                       second marriage as he got divorced
                                                                                                              from his wife of 20 years in 2015. He
        and their children are residing                                                                       had reportedly first met Rachna on a
        in the US. The CM’s daughter                                                                          flight from Mumbai to Kolkata.
        Seerat Kaur Mann (21) and                                                                                       Chander Mohan
        son  Dilshan  Mann (17)  had                                                                              The former Deputy CM of Hary-
        flown from the US to attend                                                                           ana had even converted his religion
        his swearing-in ceremony on         Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann with his newly-wed Dr Gurpreet Kaur during their   to marry his girlfriend Anuradha Bali
        March 16 this year.                wedding ceremony, in Chandigarh on Thursday. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is also   while in office in 2008. The couple re-
                                                          present. (ANI Photo/ Sanjay Singh AAP Twitter)      named themselves Chand Mohammad
            At the wedding, the guests got                                                                    and Fiza. After this whole incident of
        to savor the best of Indian and Ital-  gna Siciliano and Burrani Raita.  He’s not the politician who got   changing his religion and second mar-
        ian cuisine including Karahi Paneer,   As Bhagwant Mann tied the    married  while  serving  in  office  as   riage, Chandramohan’s political career
        Tandoori Kulche, Dal Makhani,     knot with Dr Gurpreet Kaur, he has   there have been many such leaders,   suffered a lot. Later, their marriage
        Navratan Biryani,  Mausami Sub-   joined the list of Indian politicians   who tied the knot while holding the   ended in tragedy as the couple split
        zian, Apricot Stuffed Kofta, Lasa-  who got hitched while in office.   post of minister.              soon and Bali died a few years later.


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