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Senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh has announced that he will formally move to disqualify three of Rajya Sabha members — Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal, and Sandeep Pathak — following their move to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
His assertion comes after Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, and Ashok Mittal, decided to break away from the Arvind Kejriwal-led party.
In an X post, Sanjay Singh said that the party would be approaching the presiding officer of the Rajya Sabha to invoke the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, which details provisions of disqualification on the grounds of defection.
“I will submit a letter to the Hon’ble Rajya Sabha Chairman, in which a demand will be made to declare Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal, and Sandeep Pathak disqualified from Rajya Sabha membership for joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as this is tantamount to voluntarily relinquishing membership of their original party under the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution,” he said.
Earlier, Rajya Sabha MPs Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak and Ashok Mittal joined the BJP after severing ties with the AAP. The MPs formally joined the BJP in the presence of party president Nitin Nabin at its headquarters in Delhi.
