Punjabi actress Sonia Mann joins AAP
Chandigarh, Feb 23 (PTI): Punjabi actress Sonia Mann on Sunday joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the presence of party's national convener Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi.
Kejriwal, along with other AAP leaders, welcomed Mann into the party, said a party statement.
Mann, the daughter of Kirti Kisan Union leader Baldev Singh, "has been actively involved in social service for a long time and often raises important social and political issues through social media", the AAP said.
Mann on her part said that she is "impressed by the work of the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab".
"I decided to join the AAP. I felt that only this party could provide me with an opportunity to work for people. Whenever I approached any AAP MLA or minister with any work, they prioritised it," she added.
Mann has done work in various movies in Punjabi, Hindi and Malayalam languages. She has done work in Malayalam movie 'Hide n' Seek' in 2012, Punjabi movie 'Haani' in 2013 and Hindi movie 'Happy Hardy and Heer' in 2020.
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Nitish Kumar's son Nishant among 32 to take oath as Bihar ministers
Patna (PTI): In a major expansion of the Cabinet of Bihar's first BJP-led government, JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar's son Nishant Kumar and 31 others took oath as ministers on Thursday in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Altogether 32 leaders, drawn from all constituents of the five-party NDA in the state, were administered the oath of office by Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain at a grand ceremony that was also attended by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Health Minister J P Nadda and BJP president Nitin Nabin.
Prominent inductees included Nishant Kumar, the son of JD(U) president Nitish Kumar, who stepped down as chief minister last month to enter the Rajya Sabha.
The BJP, which is the single largest party in the 243-member assembly with 89 MLAs, has 15 ministers, who took oath on Thursday.
Most of the inductees were those who were part of the Nitish Kumar cabinet formed in November last year after the NDA stormed back to power in the assembly polls.
The JD(U) is represented by a total of 15 ministers, 13 of whom took the oath at the Gandhi Maidan on Thursday. Vijay Kumar Chaudhary and Bijendra Prasad Yadav had taken oath in April along with Samrat Choudhary and were designated as deputy chief ministers.
Sanjay Kumar Singh and Sanjay Kumar Paswan, both from the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) headed by Union minister Chirag Paswan, are back as ministers, and so are Santosh Kumar Suman and Deepak Prakash, sons of Union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi of the Hindustani Awam Morcha and Upendra Kushwaha of the Rashtriya Lok Morcha, respectively.
