New Delhi, April 27 -- Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday welcomed seven Aam Aadmi Party MPs into the Bharatiya Janata Party, after Rajya Sabha Chairman CP Radhakrishnan approved their merger.

Welcoming the MPs into what he described as the "nation-building" fold under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rijiju also took a swipe at the Opposition INDIA bloc, calling it the "Tukde-Tukde INDI Alliance."

In a post on X, Rijju said, "Rajya Sabha Chairman CP Radhakrishnan has accepted the merger of 7 AAP MPs with BJP. Now, Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Swati Maliwal, Rajinder Gupta & Vikramjit Singh Sahney are Members of the BJP Parliamentary Party. For a long time, I've observed that these ...