New Delhi, April 26 -- Just days after seven Rajya Sabha MPs from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) switched to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), AAP senior leader Sanjay Singh has submitted a petition to the Rajya Sabha Chairman CP Radhakrishnan, seeking their disqualification. The seven MPs - including Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal, Sandeep Pathak, Harbhajan Singh, Rajendra Gupta, Vikram Sahni and Swati Maliwal - quit AAP and announced their merger with the BJP.

Incidentally, six of the seven MPs who quit the party were Rajya Sabha MPs from Punjab.

Addressing a press conference, Sanjay Singh claimed the move by the seven Rajya Sabha MPs amounted to defection as it was against the provisions of the anti-defection law. Sanjay Singh also said that...