Chandigarh, April 30 -- President Droupadi Murmu has granted an appointment to Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on May 5 following the defection of seven Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha members to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Mann said the President responded to his request for a meeting and scheduled it for 12 noon on Tuesday. On April 25, Mann had sought time to meet the President at the earliest to formally demand the "recall" of six of the rebel MPs elected from the state. Seven MPs, constituting two-thirds of its total strength of 10 in the Upper House, defected to the BJP on April 24, dealing a serious blow to the AAP. Those who switched sides are Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Kumar Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Rajinder Gupta, Vikramjit Singh Sahney (all from Punjab), and Swati Maliwal (Delhi). Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan on Monday officially accepted the merger of the MPs with the BJP, reducing the strength of AAP in the Upper House to three. The Constitution has no provision for the recall of an elected representative. Legal experts say the idea of "recall" is alien to the Constitution. Ashok Aggarwal, a former advocate general of Punjab said: "Recall is not a provision available in the Constitution under any schedule. There is no question of recall."...