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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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