New Delhi, April 28 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) now has 113 members in the Rajya Sabha after the Upper House's chairman sanctioned the merger of a group of seven Aam Aadmi Party MPs with it, even as there was no response to a complaint from AAP seeking their disqualification. On Monday, the Rajya Sabha secretariat notified the relative party positions in the Upper House, indicating that the "merger" was permitted by chairman CP Radhakrishnan. The total strength of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition has now risen to 149 in the 245-member House. The 113 also includes five nominated MPs. "There is no official communication other than the revised party position. which itself is an indication of the merger being allowed," said a Rajya Sabha functionary, asking not to be named. The revised party position prompted a letter from Sanjay Singh, one of the three AAP MPs left in the Rajya Sabha and leader of the AAP parliamentary party to the Rajya Sabha's secretary general, seeking a clarification on the alteration of his party's strength in the "official records", the date on which such alteration was made, and the person who authorised it. On Friday, seven AAP MPs -- Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Vikramjit Sahney, and Rajinder Gupta from Punjab, and Swati Maliwal, from Delhi -- announced their decision to merge with the BJP. Since the seven accounted for two-thirds of the party's 10 MPs in the Upper House, they claimed they were immune to disqualification under the anti-defection law. To be sure, this is dependant on an interpretation of "party" in the law to mean the legislative party (the strength of the party in the House) and not political party -- a norm that has been followed in several similar instances....