{"id":65721,"date":"2026-04-27T07:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/rs-chairman-accepts-merger-of-7-aap-mps-with-bjp\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T07:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:30:51","slug":"rs-chairman-accepts-merger-of-7-aap-mps-with-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/rs-chairman-accepts-merger-of-7-aap-mps-with-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"RS Chairman Accepts Merger Of 7 AAP MPs With BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan on Monday officially accepted the merger of seven Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MPs with the BJP, reducing the strength of Arvind Kejriwal\u2019s party in the Upper House to three.<\/div>\n<div>After this transition, the BJP\u2019s strength in the Upper House has increased to 113.<\/div>\n<div>Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Sandeep Pathak, Vikramjit Sahney, Swati Maliwal, and Rajinder Gupta are the seven MPs who have merged.<\/div>\n<div>The Rajya Sabha website now shows that the seven MPs are part of the BJP list of members.<\/div>\n<div>The seven MPs had on Friday petitioned the Rajya Sabha Chairman to be treated as BJP MPs after the merger and the same has been accepted, sources said.<\/div>\n<div>The AAP had on Sunday moved a petition before the RS Chairman seeking the termination of the membership of the seven MPs, who had switched sides. Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh said he has submitted a petition to Chairman Radhakrishnan seeking the disqualification of the seven party MPs in the Upper House, who recently quit the AAP and announced their merger with the BJP.<\/div>\n<div>On Friday last, the AAP suffered a jolt when the seven Rajya Sabha MPs quit and announced merger with the BJP, alleging that the Kejriwal-led party had strayed from its principles, values and core morals. (Agencies)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan on Monday officially accepted the merger of seven Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MPs with the BJP, reducing the strength of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4603],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65721","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}