Rajya Sabha MPs Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal and Sandeep Pathak, who announced their resignations from AAP, joined the BJP in the presence of party chief Nitin Nabin in Delhi on Friday. Chadha, 37, claimed that about two-thirds of AAP’s Rajya Sabha MPs are leaving the party to join the BJP. Besides Chadha, the MPs named as joining the BJP include Swati Maliwal, Harbhajan Singh, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, Rajinder Gupta and Vikram Sahney. AAP currently has 10 Rajya Sabha MPs, with a large chunk from Punjab. This development marks a major setback for AAP and its leader, Arvind Kejriwal.
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