“Again today, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann reached the ‘temple of democracy’ Punjab Assembly under the influence of alcohol.This man goes to Gurudwaras drunk, goes to temples drunk, comes to the Lok Sabha drunk, goes to government meetings drunk and even drinks so much abroad that he was kicked off the plane,” Maliwal said.“Before the elections, he had placed his hand on his mother’s head and promised that he would never drink alcohol again. The CM of a sensitive border state like Punjab is reportedly drunk all the time…signing files while drunk. What a shame,” she added.He said, “How can a person who abstains from alcohol only while sleeping run Punjab? CM Mann should undergo an alcohol test and if found guilty, he should be removed from the post of Chief Minister.”This comes days after Swati Maliwal, Raghav Chadha and five other Rajya Sabha members from the Aam Aadmi Party decided to quit and merge their faction with the Bharatiya Janata Party.Reacting to the controversy, opposition leader Pratap Singh Bajwa demanded immediate alco-meter and dope test of Mann and all the MLAs during the ongoing session of the Punjab Assembly.Elected to the Rajya Sabha MP in January 2024, Maliwal’s rift with the party began just a few months later in May, when she alleged that a close aide of hers had physically assaulted her at AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal’s house – a claim she has reiterated after her exit.This is not the first time Mann has come into controversy. In 2022, the opposition targeted the Punjab Chief Minister and alleged that he was deboarded from a Delhi-bound flight at Frankfurt airport because he was “intoxicated”, a charge the ruling AAP termed as baseless.