Seven defected AAP MPs listed under BJP in Rajya Sabha; saffron party’s strength in Upper House

New Delhi, 27/4: Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan on Monday gave his green signal for adding seven defected AAP MPs to the BJP, increasing the saffron party’s strength in the Upper House to 113 and reducing Arvind Kejriwal-led party’s to three even as a disqualification petition has been submitted against them.

The seven MPs — Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Sandeep Pathak, Vikramjit Sahney, Swati Maliwal, and Rajinder Gupta — are now listed among the BJP lawmakers in the ‘Party Position in the Rajya Sabha (as on April 24)’. Sanjay Singh, N D Gupta and Sant Balbir Singh are the three AAP MPs left in the party.