NEW DELHI, APR 24 : In a major blow to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), seven of its ten Rajya Sabha MPs, including Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak and Ashok Mittal, quit the party on Friday and announced that they would join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a unified faction.
Addressing a joint press conference, Chadha claimed that nearly two‑thirds of AAP’s Rajya Sabha strength had staged a walkout, citing a drift from the party’s core values and functioning in the “national interest”. Pathak confirmed that he and the others would be merging with the BJP, while the group also alleged that disgruntled leaders such as Swati Maliwal and Harbhajan Singh had quit AAP.
