New Delhi, May 2 -- Days after Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak switched to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), two FIRs have been lodged against him by the Punjab Police, agencies quoted sources as saying. The FIRs, registered in different districts of the state, have been filed against Sandeep Pathak under non-bailable sections.

Sandeep Pathak was among the seven Rajya Sabha MPs who had quit the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and joined the BJP.

On April 24, the AAP suffered a jolt when seven of its 10 Rajya Sabha MPs - Sandeep Pathak, Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Rajendra Gupta, Vikramjit Sahney and Swati Maliwal - quit and defected to the BJP.

In a press conference, Raghav Chadha alleged that Arvind Kejriwal's AAP had strayed fr...