In August 2022, Raghav Chadha introduced a Private Member Bill in the Rajya Sabha to tighten anti-defection laws, calling it a 'blot on our democracy.'
He proposed raising the threshold for lawmakers to switch parties from two-thirds to three-fourths and barring defecting lawmakers from contesting elections for six years.
Less than four years later, Chadha led six Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MPs in switching to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), taking advantage of the very provision he had sought to amend.
The AAP has said it will seek disqualification of the seven MPs, while Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann has sought the 'recall' of the six defectors, a mechanism that Chadha himself pitched in Parliament in February 2026.
