As a former big-name comic in Punjab, Bhagwant Mann of the Aam Aadmi Party or AAP knows his way around repartee. At rallies, however, he has been reticent about playing for laughs, allegedly because he wants to be taken seriously enough to be considered for Chief Minister. But a little needling does the needful. Driving in a car to a public meeting, Mr Mann, currently one of the Aam Aadmi Party's two MPs, delivered a litany of one-liners for the Badals, the family that anchors the Akali Dal party which currently governs Punjab with the BJP.
