Chandigarh, May 5 -- Chief minister Bhagwant Mann and rebel Rajya Sabha members led by Raghav Chadha will separately meet President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday over the latter's switch from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Seven members of Parliament, constituting two-thirds of the AAP's total strength of 10 in the upper house, had joined the BJP on April 24. They included Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Kumar Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Rajinder Gupta, Vikramjit Singh Sahney (all from Punjab), and Swati Maliwal (Delhi). Mann is scheduled to meet the President at 12 noon, where he plans to make a case for the "recall" of the Rajya Sabha members who switched sides.

Mann had sought a collective audience for a...