Punjab minister Harjot Bains to tie knot with IPS officer Jyoti Yadav who stood up to AAP MLA

Yadav, then posted as ACP in Ludhiana, while maintaining her calm, had told the MLA that she conducted the search operation on the orders of Ludhiana police commissioner.

She had later told The Indian Express that the “police is not supposed to inform any politician or MLA before conducting a search operation”.

“Respect is always mutual. We conducted the search operation on orders of the police commissioner. I was just doing my job. The inputs from elected representatives are always welcome but misbehaviour cannot be tolerated,” she had said.

Bains, who had joined AAP as a volunteer, and was later elevated as party’s state youth wing president in 2016, is a first-time MLA from Anandpur Sahib constituency of Ropar. The 32-year-old is a native of Gambhirpur village of Anandpur Sahib.

A Jatt-Sikh, Bains is a law graduate from Panjab University, Chandigarh, with added qualification in international human rights law from London School of Economics. He had contested his first Assembly election from Sahnewal constituency of Ludhiana in 2017 but lost to SAD’s Sharanjit Singh Dhillon. In 2022 state polls, Bains defeated then Assembly Speaker Rana KP Singh of Congress by over 45,000 votes from Anandpur Sahib.

Bains was inducted as jails and mining minister in Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s Cabinet. However, he was later divested of both portfolios in a Cabinet reshuffle and instead given higher education along with school education.

Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan congratulated the couple “who are going to embark on a new journey in their lives in coming days”.

Bains will be the second minister to get married while in office after the AAP formed government in state. Earlier, in July last CM Mann tied the knot with Dr Gurpreet Kaur, an MBBS degree holder from Maharishi Markandeshwar University, in Ambala. Dr Gurpreet too is a Haryana resident, hailing from from Kurukshetra district.

At least three other ruling party MLAs, including Narinder Kaur Bharaj, Ranveer Singh Bhullar, and Narinder Pal Singh Sawana, got married after AAP came to power in Punjab last year.