India, April 25 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance is set to see its Rajya Sabha strength rise after an AAP MP said seven of the 10 party lawmakers in the upper house were "merging" with the ruling partyand have conveyed this to the Upper House Chairman CP Radhakrishnan. Since two-thirds of the members of the Parliamentary Party in RS are resigning, including the deputy leader in the Upper House, Ashok Mittal, the members are not liable for disqualification under the anti-defection law, which stipulates that two-thirds of the party's elected members have to agree to merge with another, said people aware of the details. The AAP also has three MPs in the Lok Sabha.

As per the law, the Chairman of the House will ...