New Delhi, April 25 -- The ruling National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) Rajya Sabha strength is set to rise as seven of 10 AAP lawmakers in the upper house said they are "merging" with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and conveyed it to the Upper House Chairman CP Radhakrishnan.

Deputy leader Ashok Mittal, Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, Harbhajan Singh, Rajinder Gupta, Vikram Sahney, and Swati Maliwal resigned as AAP MPs and are set to merge with the BJP.

Because two-thirds of the AAP's Rajya Sabha members are resigning, they are immune to disqualification under the anti-defection law. According to a Hindustan Times (HT) report citing sources, the move meets the legal threshold, which requires at least two-thirds of a party's elected me...