The Chief Minister of Indian Punjab Bhagwant Mann has been admitted after he drank “polluted water from a river to prove that water is clean”.
The video of Punjab state chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s act of drinking water from the Kali Bein river in Punjab’s Sultanpur Lodhi city has gone viral after reports emerged of his subsequent alleged illness.
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Mr Mann, who was elected the state’s chief Minister, was admitted to neighbouring state Delhi’s Indraprastha Apollo Hospital on Tuesday, reported The Indian Express.
Independent reports He fell ill with a severe stomach ache at his residence in Chandigarh city and had to be airlifted to Delhi, the report said, citing sources familiar with the incident.
People soon started linking his reported illness to him drinking water from the river, considered to be holy.
