Raghav Chadha
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The Rajya Sabha Secretariat has up to date its portal which now exhibits the breakaway group of seven MPs of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as MPs of Bharatiya Janata Party. This means, the Vice President and Chairman of the Rajya Shabha, CP Radhakrishnan has accepted the plea from the defecting parliamentarians.
These MPs embrace Raghav Chadda, Sandeep Phatak, Ashok Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Rajinder Gupta, Vikramjeet Sahney, and Swati Maliwal. With this, the AAP will now have Sanjay Singh and Narain Dass Gupta from Delhi and Sant Balbir Singh from Punjab within the Rajya Sabha. At the identical time, BJP’s power went as much as 113.
The social gathering has three members — Raj Kumar Chabbewal, Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer and Malvinder Singh Kang (all from Punjab) — within the Lok Sabha.
The AAP had on Sunday moved a petition earlier than the RS Chairman searching for the termination of the membership of the seven MPs, who had switched sides. Party MP MP Sanjay Singh mentioned he has submitted a petition to Chairman Radhakrishnan searching for the disqualification of the seven social gathering MPs within the Upper House, who just lately give up the AAP and introduced their merger with the BJP.
On April 24, Chadda introduced: “As per the Constitution, two-thirds of the total MPs of a party can merge with another party. We have submitted a letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman CP Radhakrishnan in this regard today, along with all the required documents.” Since the numbers signify greater than 2/third of the entire power of the social gathering within the Rajya Sabha, they won’t face motion beneath the anti-defection legislation.
“The BJP has once again betrayed Punjabis,” AAP National Convener Arvind Kejriwal mentioned in in a submit on X. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann dubbed the AAP’s Rajya Sabha members who give up the social gathering as “gaddars” (traitors). “BJP was trying to break the AAP and had betrayed the people of Punjab. When they did not find anything against Bhagwant Mann, they tried to break AAP,” mentioned Mann.
According to him, the BJP is perturbed why Mann is changing into the chief of the folks. “People of Punjab are with the AAP; they firmly stand with the party,” he mentioned, including that the social gathering is greater than a person, and 6-7 individuals who have left don’t comprise Punjab.
Published on April 27, 2026