India, April 25 -- In a shock to the Aam Aadmi Party, Raghav Chadha, along with 6 other Rajya Sabha MPs, quit the Arvind Kejriwal-led party on Friday, and merged with the BJP. Those who left with Chadha are the group of seven lawmakers including six from Punjab - Chadha himself, Ashok Mittal, Sandeep Pathak, Rajinder Gupta, Vikram Sahney and Harbhajan Singh - and one from Delhi, MP Swati Maliwal. Punjab, which has an AAP government, is set to go to polls in early 2027.

Out of the seven, only three, including Chadha, Pathak and Ashok Mittal, who had replaced Chadha as AAP's Rajya Sabha deputy leader just days ago have formally joined the BJP. The status of the other 4 remain unknown. The trio had met BJP president Nitin Nabin and joined t...