India, April 25 -- A day after seven Aam Aadmi Party MPs from the Rajya Sabha, led by Raghav Chadha, merged with the BJP, workers from AAP staged protests against former party leaders.

Among the seven leaders who quit AAP were Rajya Sabha MPs Harbhajan Singh and Ashok Mittal. The protesting party workers on Saturday termed both Singh and Mittal a "traitor".

The workers wrote the term "gaddar (traitor)" on the outer walls and the main gate of former cricketer Singh's residence in Jalandhar, as well as outside the main entrance of the Phagwara campus of Lovely Professional University, owned by Mittal. The protestors were also seen defacing Mittal's poster outside the LPU campus.

Apart from Singh and Mittal, Rajya Sabha MPs Raghav Chadha,...