New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh on Sunday said that the membership of the seven MPs who recently left the party and are set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) “will be cancelled” under constitutional provisions.Singh said the AAP has filed a petition under the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution and requested Rajya Sabha Chairman C. P. Radhakrishnan to conduct an early hearing and deliver a fair decision.The development comes after Rajya Sabh…
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Gandhinagar, April 25 (IANS) The defection of seven Rajya Sabha members from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has intensified scrutiny of party’s organisational strength in Gujarat, with rivals and dissenting voices questioning its claim of emerging as a ‘third political force’ in a state traditionally dominated by bipolar politics.The MPs, including Sandeep Pathak and Raghav Chadha, joined the BJP on Friday, weakening AAP’s presence in the Upper House and dealing …
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) The Congress on Saturday hit out at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and former Delhi chief Arvind Kejriwal, criticising the AAP supremo of “abandoning” the original principles of the party, which made seven of its Rajya Sabha MPs, including Raghav Chadha, switch to the BJP. The Congress leaders also accused Chadha of becoming “overly ambitious”.Speaking to IANS, Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit said he was not surprised by the MPs’ exit.”Raghav Chadha has been speaking in a s…
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha said on Saturday that he and six other Members of Parliament chose to leave the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as the party had fallen into “corrupt and compromised hands”, leaving them “disappointed, disenchanted and disgusted”. Chadha triggered a major political development on Friday by announcing his resignation from AAP along with six other Rajya Sabha MPs — Swati Maliwal, Harbhajan Singh, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, Rajinder Gupta and Vi…
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) faced a seismic shock on Friday as heavyweight leaders and sitting Rajya Sabha MPs, Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal, Sandeep Pathak, among others, formally announced their departure.The move to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) began with a high-voltage press conference, where Chadha, flanked by Ashok Mittal and Sandeep Pathak, read out a carefully worded statement denouncing AAP policies since 2013. Chadha, once projected as the party’s second‑run…
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva on Friday said that in the name of bringing change in the political landscape, Arvind Kejriwal formed the Aam Aadmi Party but rapidly turned from a party convener into a party dictator.On a day when a faction of AAP’s Rajya Sabha MPs merged with the BJP, Sachdeva said Kejriwal misused power and dragged the party into the mire of corruption, as a result of which, from Shashi Bhushan to Raghav Chadha, all founding members of “AAP…
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha on Friday announced the merger of two-thirds of the party’s House members – 7 out of 10 – with the BJP, citing “suffocation” and lack of opportunity to serve people in the outfit that he founded with Arvind Kejriwal a decade ago. Addressing a press conference along with AAP MPs Ashok Mittal and Sandeep Pathak, Chadha said, “We have decided that we, the 2/3rd members belonging to the AAP in Rajya Sabha, ex…
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Raghav Chadha, the senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP, dropped a political bombshell on Friday, by announcing his exit from the party along with six other party lawmakers – all headed to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). He said that the two-thirds faction of the AAP Rajya Sabha MPs, comprising a breakaway faction, will merge with the BJP in the coming days.Chadha made the announcement in a press conference, accompanied by another party Rajya Sabha MP, Sandee…