Chandigarh, April 26 -- The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday described chief minister Bhagwant Mann's decision to seek an appointment with the President to demand the 'recall' of the state's Rajya Sabha members, who defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party as "political theatrics" and reminded him that under the tenth schedule of the Constitution taking action against MPs was Parliament's domain and not the President's discretion.

In a statement here, senior Akali leader Daljit Singh Cheema said the anti-defection law was clear that in case two-thirds of members of a particular party merged with another, no action could be taken against them. The SAD leader said that before seeking remedies that did not exist constitutionally, the AAP...