India, April 27 -- In August 2022, Raghav Chadha stood in the Rajya Sabha as a newly elected AAP MP from Punjab and introduced a Private Member Bill calling for stricter anti-defection laws. He spoke against what he called "nefarious floor crossing by legislators in total disregard of the democratic wishes of the electorate who returned them".

He said he wanted to see "the prevention of horse-trading" of elected lawmakers, and argued that tightening the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution would erase a "blot on our democracy".

Less than four years later, on April 25, 2026, Chadha led six Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MPs in switching to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The defection was made possible by the very provision he had once sou...