SP leader Aparna Yadav to join BJP; AAP names Bhagwant Mann as CM candidate; this and more

Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s daughter-in-law, Aparna Yadav, is likely to join the saffron party today, sources said. Aparna Yadav is the wife of Mulayam Singh’s younger son, Pratik Yadav. Meanwhile, AAP announced Bhagwant Mann as their chief ministerial candidate. Mann said, "I always said I am a soldier. I always said I can do the duty of a poster boy as long as Punjab CM.”