India, May 4 -- It is doubtless painful to see seven Rajya Sabha MPs from the AAP renounce their party and join the BJP. The media presented it as something so shocking that it upturned reality. However, was it actually so astonishing? A bitter brew had been simmering beneath the surface with fumes in plain sight.

What is even more agonising for the AAP is that some of the defectors were the party's poster boys (and girls). Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, and Swati Maliwal were very much synonymous with the AAP. In a way, these MPs put forth a perfect demonstration of the falsehood and opportunism that are the hallmarks of the events leading to, and the inception and character of the AAP.

While Swati Maliwal's exit was written in stone ...