Soon after his party’s parliamentarians announced a mass defection, Aam Aadmi Party’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Friday (April 24, 2026) said the BJP has “once again” betrayed the people of Punjab. Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha said that nearly two-thirds of AAP’s MPs in the Upper House had quit the party and would merge with the BJP as a separate faction.
“The BJP has once again given Punjabis a shove,” Mr. Kejriwal said in a post on X.
Raghav Chadha, six AAP MPs join BJP
Addressing a press conference with Sandeep Pathak and Ashok Mittal, Mr. Chadha, who was recently demoted by AAP, said: “We have decided that we, the 2/3rd members belonging to the AAP in Rajya Sabha, exercise the provisions of the Constitution of India and merge ourselves with the BJP.”
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