With the Punjab Assembly elections approaching, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced Bhagwant Mann as the party's chief ministerial candidate in a video broadcast on their official Twitter page on January 17, Tuesday, headlined "Punjab's future CM is in the house." The video is a parody of Shah Rukh Khan's song "Mast Kalandar" from the Bollywood film Heyy Baby, which was released in 2007.