India, April 26 -- After Raghav Chadha led six other AAP Rajya Sabha MPs out of the party and into the BJP, Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann took a pointed swipe at his former colleague - not by name alone, but by a house number.

"A Rajya Sabha member who is now feeling suffocated in AAP due to personal interests had enjoyed the fruits of power in Kothi Number 50," Mann said at a press conference in Chandigarh on Friday, in which he later called all seven "gaddar" or traitors.

The "kothi" or bungalow/mansion reference carried many meanings, one among them being the powers Chadha held, allegedly, in the first two to three years of the AAP's Punjab regime after a landslide win in 2022.

House No 50, Sector 2, Chandigarh, is a sprawling...