New Delhi:
Raghav Chadha has announced he will join the BJP, taking away with him a big chunk of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s Rajya Sabha MPs, in a move that deals a major blow to party chief and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal who had demoted him weeks earlier.
About two-thirds of the AAP’s 10 MPs in the Upper House would merge with the BJP, Chadha said at a press conference this afternoon, accusing the party that once came to power in Delhi over promises to fight corruption, of moving away from honest politics.
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“We have signed and sent it (the decision to merge with the BJP) to the chairman of Rajya Sabha,” he said.
The AAP stated it would seek the disqualification of Chadha and the two other MPs who announced their exit today, while Kejriwal slammed the BJP for “betraying the Punjabis”.
The country’s anti-defection law exempts cases where two-thirds of lawmakers of a party decides to merge with another.
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