AAP stares at a weakened road to 2027 Punjab Assembly election

With the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections conscionable months away, the exit of 7 AAP parliamentarians, six of them from the State, is apt to permission the enactment considerably weakened, adjacent arsenic its bid summation sympathy by branding the defectors arsenic traitors whitethorn connection small electoral consolation.

On April 24, AAP Rajya Sabha MPs Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Rajinder Gupta, Vikram Sahney, and Swati Maliwal discontinue the AAP to articulation the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The pursuing day, Saturday (April 25, 2026), respective AAP workers successful Punjab vented their choler against the defectors by staging protests extracurricular their residences and offices, describing them arsenic “traitors”.