Chandigarh, May 11 -- Gyan Singh Mann, cousin of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday in the presence of Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini and Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar.

This development comes after the trio of MPs - Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak and Ashok Mittal - parted ways with the AAP last month and subsequently joined the BJP in the presence of party leadership. Harbhajan Singh, Rajinder Gupta, Vikramjit Singh Sahney and Swati Maliwal had also merged with the BJP later.

Following the merger, major political developments have taken place in Punjab with Bhagwant Mann alleging that the BJP has been using central investigative agencies, including the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Central ...