Chandigarh, Oct. 23 -- Hitting back at Union Home Minister Amit Shah's claim that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will be ousted from power in Punjab in the 2027 Assembly elections, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday said that governments are decided by the public and not by individual leaders.

"Well, it won't happen just because Amit Shah says so; it will happen based on what the people say," Mann told ANI in Chandigarh.

The remarks follow a political war of words between the BJP and the AAP leadership.

Mann asserted that democracy rests on the mandate of the common people, who will ultimately decide the political future of the state based on the work done by his government.

Earlier, on October 20, following the transfer of Parminder S...