Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha and six other Aam Aadmi Party MPs have left the party to merge with the BJP, dealing a significant blow to Arvind Kejriwal's party.
The seven MPs, primarily from Punjab, quit the party to join the BJP, ensuring that they retained their membership in the upper house.
Raghav Chadha explained his decision, saying, 'I didn't want to be apart of their sins.' He added that they didn't enter politics for their careers but to serve the nation, and if the party wasn't working for the nation, it was because the Aam Aadmi Party was no longer the same.
The Aam Aadmi Party has reacted to the move, calling it a 'betrayal' to the people of Punjab and an attack on the Bhagwant Mann government.
Kejriwal wrote on X, 'The BJP once again betrayed the Punjabis,' while Sanjay Singh accused the BJP of conducting 'Operation Lotus' against the Bhagwant Mann government in Punjab.
