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The Aam Aadmi Party’s legislature party in the Rajya Sabha was splitting and a faction was merging with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, said AAP MP Raghav Chadha. Chadha claimed that two-thirds of the AAP’s members in the Upper House of Parliament were supporting him.

The announcement was made at a press conference alongside AAP MPs Sandeep Pathak and Ashok Mittal. Other AAP MPs Harbhajan Singh, Rajinder Gupta, Vikram Sahney and Swati Maliwal were supporting the decision to merge with the BJP, Chadha claimed. The AAP had 10 members in the Rajya Sabha before the split. It has three MPs in the Lok Sabha.

AAP leader Sanjay Singh said that the seven MPs had “backstabbed the people of Punjab”. Read on.


The Supreme Court was informed that 65 election duty officers are among persons deleted from West Bengal's voter lists during the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls. Their counsel told the court that while the officers’ duty orders mention their Electors’ Photo Identity Card numbers, “now those numbers are deleted”.

However, the bench told the petitioners to approach the...

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