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Harbhajan Singh Moves Court Over Removal Of Security Cover After He Quit AAP For BJP
The Punjab Police withdrew the security cover of the former cricketer after he, along with six other members of the Upper House, defected to the BJP.
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Rajya Sabha MP Harbhajan Singh, who recently quit Aam Aadmi Party and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party along with six other MPs, has moved the Punjab and Haryana high court seeking directions to the Punjab government to restore his security cover.
According to various media reports, The Punjab Police withdrew the security cover of the former cricketer after he, along with six other members of the Upper House, defected to the BJP. Following the withdrawal of the Punjab police security, the Centre deputed the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) outside his residence in Jalandhar.
AP workers held protests outside the houses of Harbhajan Singh, Rajinder Gupta and Ashok Mittal following their defection, writing “gaddar” (traitor) with spray paint on the boundary walls of their residences in Jalandhar and Ludhiana.
On April 24, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) suffered a jolt when seven of its 10 Rajya Sabha MPs — Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal, Sandeep Pathak, Harbhajan Singh, Rajendra Gupta, Vikramjit Sahney and Swati Maliwal — quit and merged with the BJP, alleging that the party had strayed from its principles, values and core morals. Six of the seven MPs who quit AAP are from Punjab.