India, April 30 -- Chief minister Bhagwant Mann confirmed on Thursday that while he requested a collective meeting with President Droupadi Murmu, he alone has been invited for the May 5 appointment.

Mann intends to travel to Rashtrapati Bhavan accompanied by the full contingent of AAP's 91 Punjab legislators, who will wait outside while he enters at 12 noon to present the state's concerns. The meeting centres on the April 24 defection of seven Rajya Sabha MPs, six of them from Punjab, to the BJP. The move reduced AAP's Upper House strength to three and prompted Mann to demand a formal "recall" of the rebels.

The defecting members include Punjab-elected MPs Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Kumar Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Rajinder Gupt...