Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann seeks President Murmu’s intervention after Raghav Chadha-led AAP leaves Lok Sabha
New Delhi: A day after seven AAP MPs, six from Punjab, defected to the BJP, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann sought a meeting with President Droupadi Murmu. He is expected to meet with the state’s partisan lawmakers to seek to “recall” them.The development comes after AAP faced a major setback when Raghav Chadha and six other MPs left the party and decided to merge with the BJP.
Addressing a press conference on Friday, Chadha said the decision was taken after MPs felt that the Arvind Kejriwal-led party had strayed from its principles, values and core ethics. In announcing the move, he also called himself “the right man in the wrong party.”“We have decided that we as the two-thirds members of the BJP in the Union House will implement the provisions of the Indian Constitution and merge with the BJP,” he said at the Constitution Club in Delhi.According to reports, those who have withdrawn include Swati Maliwal, cricketer-turned-Union Congress member Harbhajan Singh, Sandeep Pathak, Rajinder Gupta and Vikramjit Singh Sahney.Meanwhile, senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh said he will write to the Lok Sabha president seeking disqualification of three MPs under the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, which deals with disqualification on grounds of defection.He said in a post on
