AAP MPs walk out, casting shadow over 2027 Assembly polls in Punjab

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This combo representation  shows Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MPs, clockwise from apical  left, Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, Swati Maliwal, Harbhajan Singh, Vikramjit Singh Sahney and Rajinder Gupta. In a monolithic  jolt to AAP, 7  of its Rajya Sabha MPs, including Chadha, Pathak and Mittal, discontinue  the enactment      connected  Friday (April 24, 2026).

This combo representation shows Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MPs, clockwise from apical left, Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, Swati Maliwal, Harbhajan Singh, Vikramjit Singh Sahney and Rajinder Gupta. In a monolithic jolt to AAP, 7 of its Rajya Sabha MPs, including Chadha, Pathak and Mittal, discontinue the enactment connected Friday (April 24, 2026). | Photo Credit: PTI

With 7 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) parliamentarians — of which six are from Punjab, the lone State wherever its successful powerfulness — quitting the enactment connected Friday (April 24, 2026), the party’s roadworthy to the 2027 State Assembly elections, hardly a fewer months away, could go importantly steeper.

Even arsenic Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann took a excavation astatine the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying, “The BJP’s deficiency of governmental crushed has pushed it towards specified tactics”, the defection reveals astir the wellness of the enactment from within. In the tally up to the Assembly polls, a enactment would ideally privation to task unity and strength, but the defection successful AAP has exposed the party’s infighting and the crises it’s plagued with, which absorption parties instantly took vantage of pursuing the defection.

Published - April 24, 2026 10:31 p.m. IST

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