India, April 24 -- Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha left the Aam Aadmi Party along with six other party MPs and merged with the BJP in a big jolt to Arvind Kejriwal's party.

Seven of the ten AAP MPs in Rajya Sabha, primarily from Punjab, quit the party to merge with BJP. The number (two-thirds of the total strength) also ensured that the party members retained their membership in the upper house.

While speaking on the move behind AAP exit, Raghav Chadha said, "Main unke gunaah me shaamil nahi hona chahta tha (I didn't want to be apart of their sins)".

"We didn't enter politics to make our career, but we left our career to enter politics for the nation. And if the party (AAP) is not working for the nation, it is because the Aam Aadmi Party ...