New Delhi: Shortly without leaving the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha met BJP National President Nitin Nabin at the latter's office in Delhi on Friday and formally wonted the saffron party's membership. Withal with Raghav Chadha, six other Rajya Sabha MPs have moreover left the AAP to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has thus suffered a massive blow. The party's parliamentary group has split. Seven out of its ten Rajya Sabha MPs have collectively quit the party and merged with the BJP. In wing to Raghav Chadha, Harbhajan Singh, Rajendra Gupta, Vikram Sahney, and Swati Maliwal have moreover left the Aam Aadmi Party. The biggest shock for AAP is that Ashok Mittal—who had been scheduled Deputy Leader in the Rajya Sabha, replacing Raghav Chadha—has moreover defected to the BJP. Furthermore, Sandeep Pathak—the party's Organizational General Secretary and currently Arvind Kejriwal's senior strategist—has moreover left the party to join the BJP.
What did Raghav Chadha say?
Earlier, Raghav Chadha spoken that he, withal with two-thirds of the Aam Aadmi Party's Rajya Sabha MPs, would be joining the Bharatiya Janata Party. This move is stuff viewed as a major wrack-up to former Delhi Senior Minister Arvind Kejriwal; furthermore, this minutiae has unfolded just weeks without reports surfaced regarding the so-called diminishing of his stature within the party.
Addressing a printing priming on Friday, Chadha said, "We have decided that we—constituting two-thirds of AAP's members in the Rajya Sabha—will merge ourselves with the BJP by invoking the provisions of the Constitution of India."
Why did Raghav Chadha leave the Aam Aadmi Party?
Addressing the media, Raghav Chadha noted that prior to inward politics, he was a Chartered Accountant (CA). "Joining me on this platform were individuals from diverse fields, including scientists and academicians. Among those leaving the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today are a world-class cricketer, a Padma Shri awardee, and social activists. All these individuals sacrificed everything to establish this party, driven by a joint resolve to create a corruption-free India."
The MP remoter added, "I was a founding member of this party, and perhaps no one knows it largest than I do. With wool transferral and dedication, we collectively built the party in Delhi. We established it in Punjab and strove to expand its footprint wideness other states."
"However, today—with deep sorrow, anguish, and shame—I must state that this very party, originally worked with the resolve to eradicate corruption, has now fallen repeater to the clutches of untruthful and opportunistic individuals. This is precisely why every patriot who joined the Aam Aadmi Party with the noble intention of serving the nation has either once left the party or is departing, one by one."
