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In a setback to the Aam Aadmi Party connected the eve of MCD bypolls, its elder person and erstwhile two-time MLA Rajesh Gupta joined the BJP successful New Delhi connected Saturday (November 29, 2025).
No absorption from the AAP was instantly disposable implicit the development.
Mr. Gupta, who was besides a nationalist spokesperson and incharge of the Karnataka portion of AAP, joined the BJP successful the beingness of Delhi authorities president Virendra Sachdeva.
Sachdeva welcomed Gupta into the BJP fold by offering him the party's stole, said a connection released by the Delhi BJP.
The Delhi BJP president said that the AAP leaders were present listing shortcomings and problems successful Delhi that were each created during the 12-year regularisation of their party, and yet they were questioning an eight-month-old authorities of the BJP.
Gupta alleged that the "biggest reason" down the "downfall" of the AAP and its leader, Arvind Kejriwal, was treating workers successful a "use and throw" manner.
According to the statement, "While joining the BJP, Rajesh Gupta became affectional arsenic helium recalled his contributions to AAP, the mockery helium received successful return, and the behaviour of AAP person Arvind Kejriwal. He adjacent broke down successful tears." When AAP was founded, galore salient individuals enthusiastically joined hands with Arvind Kejriwal, but helium "betrayed everyone", and 1 by one, they each chose to permission him, Gupta said successful the statement.
"Today, unfortunately, I person besides joined that list," helium added.
He claimed that successful the Ashok Vihar ward, AAP has fixed a summons to a idiosyncratic for the bypoll who has been issued a announcement by the enactment itself.
He further said, "Despite my years of sincerity, honesty and loyalty, erstwhile I raised concerns, the enactment president wasn't adjacent acceptable to speech to me. This is the concern erstwhile the enactment is neither successful powerfulness successful the Delhi authorities nor successful the MCD.
Treating workers arsenic 'use and throw' is the biggest crushed down Arvind Kejriwal and AAP's decline," Gupta claimed.
The Delhi BJP main said that Rajesh Gupta had created a chiseled individuality for himself arsenic a liable MLA, but Arvind Kejriwal failed to worth that identity. He added that the mode Kejriwal is missing from Delhi aft losing the Assembly polls and the circumstances nether which helium near request adjacent examination.
Sachdeva said that with Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia missing entirely, AAP leaders Atishi and Gopal Rai are simply making "special appearances" successful Delhi, referring to campaigning for bypolls to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.
