Punjab CM 'Meeting Prez on May 5 'AAP MPs' Merger with BJP'

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday said he will meet President Droupadi Murmu on May 5 in connection with the merger of seven AAP MPs in Rajya Sabha with the BJP.

Mann had earlier sought an appointment with the President for a meeting along with party MLAs to demand "recall" of the state's Rajya Sabha MPs who joined the BJP. 

"The President has given a time of 12 noon on May 5 (for the meeting) and I will certainly meet her," Mann said while speaking to reporters



here.

When asked whether there was any provision for recalling a legislator in the law, Mann said he would speak to the President. 

On April 24, the Aam Aadmi Party suffered a jolt when seven of its 10 Rajya Sabha MPs -- Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal, Sandeep Pathak, Harbhajan Singh, Rajendra Gupta, Vikramjit Sahney and Swati Maliwal -- quit and merged with the BJP, alleging that the party had strayed from its principles, values and core morals. Six of the seven MPs who quit AAP were from Punjab.