Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains weds IPS officer Dr Jyoti Yadav; Kejriwal, Mann attend

After the ceremony, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal also reached Nangal to meet the couple.

The couple will be hosting a reception, expected to be attended by top leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (Punjab Government PR)

Punjab Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains, 32, married IPS officer Dr Jyoti Yadav at a private ceremony in Rupnagar Saturday. The Anand Karaj ceremony was held at Gurdwara Sri Bibhor Sahib in Nangal of Ropar district and was attended by both families.

After the ceremony, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal also reached Nangal to meet the couple. The couple will now be hosting three reception parties, said AAP sources. The first one will be held Saturday evening at Nangal in Bains’ Anandpur Sahib constituency.

The second and third reception will be held at a resort in Zirakpur on Sunday and Monday evening, respectively, where ministers, MLAs, others Punjab politicians and bureaucrats have been invited.

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Interestingly, the couple on its invites, wrote: “RSVP: All Aam Aadmi Party family.” The invite was printed in English and Punjabi languages both.

The couple will host three reception parties, said sources in the AAP. The first one will be held on Saturday evening at Nangal in Harjot Bains’ constituency of Anandpur Sahib.

Gurgaon-based Dr Jyoti Yadav is currently posted as the Superintendent of Police (SP) in Mansa. She is also a qualified dentist. Bains – who had joined AAP as a volunteer and was promoted as the party’s Punjab youth wing chief in 2016 – is a first-time MLA from Anandpur Sahib in Rupnagar district. He is a native of the district’s Gambhirpur village. Bains is a law graduate from Panjab University, Chandigarh.

Last year, Punjab CM Mann also tied the knot with Gurpreet Kaur. Since the AAP’s victory in Punjab in 2022.

AAP MLAs Narinder Kaur Bharaj and Narinderpal Singh Sawana also got married during this time.

Divya Goyal

Divya Goyal is a Principal Correspondent with The Indian Express, based in Punjab. Her interest lies in exploring both news and feature stories, with an effort to reflect human interest at the heart of each piece. She writes on gender issues, education, politics, Sikh diaspora, heritage, the Partition among other subjects. She has also extensively covered issues of minority communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She also explores the legacy of India's partition and distinct stories from both West and East Punjab. She is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the most revered government institute for media studies in India, from where she pursued English Journalism (Print). Her research work on “Role of micro-blogging platform Twitter in content generation in newspapers” had won accolades at IIMC. She had started her career in print journalism with Hindustan Times before switching to The Indian Express in 2012. Her investigative report in 2019 on gender disparity while treating women drug addicts in Punjab won her the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in 2020. She won another Laadli for her ground report on the struggle of two girls who ride a boat to reach their school in the border village of Punjab. ... Read More

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