Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will tie the knot for the second time on Thursday, July 7. The 48-year-old politician separated from his first wife Inderpreet Kaur in 2015. He has two children from his first marriage (daughter Seerat Kaur Mann and son Dilshan Mann). The Chief Minister of Punjab is getting married to Dr Gurpreet Kaur, a resident of Pehowa, Kurukshetra, Haryana.
Bhagwant Mann’s marriage: Here are five things about Dr Gurpreet Kaur
1. Gurpreet Kaur is 32 years old and her family is from Pehowa in Kurukshetra district. Kaur’s father Inderjit Singh is a farmer and her mother, mother Raj Kaur is a housewife. Gurpreet is the third daughter of her parents.
2. Gurpreet Kaur did her MBBS from a private university in Haryana four years ago. She had enrolled for MBBS at Maharishi Markandeshwar Medical College in 2013 and completed it in 2018, said a neighbor in Pehowa.
3. How Gurpreet met Bhagwant Mann: Dr. Gurpreet Kaur reportedly came in contact with Mann a year and a half ago. According to media reports, Mann’s mother and sister chose the bride.
4. Vanita Behl, who lives in her neighborhood in Pehowa, said that Dr. Gurpreet was a kind, caring and very intelligent young woman.
5. The neighbors know the bride as Gopi. According to the reports, the marriage is arranged. The marriage will take place according to Sikh customs.
The Chief Minister of Delhi and National Convenor of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will attend the wedding ceremony. Arvind Kejriwal and his family. However, no ministers or other prominent leaders have been invited to the ceremony, news agency ANI wrote.
Best wishes to Mann and Gurpreet before marriage. State ministers Harpal Singh Cheema, Harjot Bains and Aman Arora as well as senior party leader Raghav Chadha congratulated Mann on Twitter.
Cheema tweeted, “Heartfelt congratulations to Hon’ble Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on their new innings. My best wishes for their happy married life. God bless the couple.”
Bains said, “Many congratulations and best wishes to my Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann ji for his future married life. I wish them both love, respect and companionship throughout their lives.”
Arora congratulated Mann on resuming married life and wished “May both of you be filled with happiness, joy, love, prosperity, health and togetherness. May God bless you both.”
Senior AAP leader Raghav Chadha extended best wishes to Mann and his future wife. “Wishing my ‘Vadde Veer’ (elder brother) Man Saab and Dr. Gurpreet Kaur a very happy and blessed married life,” Chadha tweeted. Responding to a tweet that Raghav Chadha was the most eligible bachelor in AAP, the Rajya Sabha MP, referring to Mann’s wedding on Thursday, wrote, “Chhote da number vadde ton baad hi aunda hai (after the elder comes the junior’s turn)”. “.
Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh Raja Warring also congratulated Mann as he began “a new chapter in his life”.
He tweeted, “My heartiest congratulations to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann ji on starting a new chapter in your life from tomorrow. Best wishes for a happy and blissful married life.”
Mann, who was the MP from Sangrur before taking over the reins of the state, filed for divorce last year. His two children are living in America with his mother Indrajit.
Bhagwant Mann took oath as the Chief Minister of Punjab on March 16 at a ceremony held in Khatkar Kalan village of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district.
The AAP had won 92 of the 117 assembly seats in Punjab earlier this year.