Mohali, July 20 -- Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Kharar Anmol Gagan Maan, 34, has resigned from the Punjab Vidhan Sabha and announced her decision to quit politics, too. Maan submitted her resignation to Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan nearly a month ago. However, the party had been trying to persuade her to reconsider the decision, party functionaries familiar with the matter said. Announcing her resignation on social media platforms X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook on Saturday, Maan wrote in Punjabi: "My heart is heavy, but I have decided to leave politics. My resignation from the post of MLA should be accepted by the Speaker." She added, "My best wishes are with the party. I hope the Punjab government will live up to the expectations of the people." Maan was elected from Kharar in the 2022 Punjab assembly elections and briefly served as a minister in the Bhagwant Mann-led cabinet. She held the portfolios of tourism and culture, investment promotion, labour, and hospitality before being dropped in the cabinet reshuffle in September last year. A singer-turned-politician, Maan belongs to Mansa district and is an alumna of MCM DAV College, Sector 36, Chandigarh. She has won several awards in folk singing and dance at both the national and international levels. Some of her popular songs include Suit, Ghaint Purpose, and Sherni. Maan joined the AAP in 2021 and was fielded from Kharar, where she won the 2022 election by defeating Shiromani Akali Dal's Ranjit Singh Gill by a margin of 37,718 votes. Mann replaced AAP MLA Kanwar Sandhu, who won the elections in 2017 by a margin of nearly 2000 votes defeating former congress cabinet minister Jagmohan Singh Kang. On Friday, real estate baron and Kharar SAD unit in-charge Ranjit Singh Gill, an aide of Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal, resigned from the primary membership of the party. He is likely to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) within two weeks. Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said that the Aam Aadmi Party has started collapsing "brick by brick" as two sitting MLAs are already out of the party and many may follow. Reacting to the resignation of Kharar MLA Anmol Gagan Maan, Warring said only three days ago, she met party convener Arvind Kejriwal and had remarked that "his dream of uplifting society always fills us with courage and inspiration". What happened to that "courage and inspiration" within three days? Warring asked. He said less than a month ago, the party suspended Amritsar North MLA Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh....