Will AAP MPs face disqualification after joining BJP?

The communicative truthful far: In a setback to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), 7 of its 10 Rajya Sabha members, amounting to two-thirds of its spot successful the Upper House, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected April 24. AAP MP Raghav Chadha, who was removed arsenic the party’s lawman person successful the Rajya Sabha 3 weeks ago, announced that helium and six different enactment members had decided to “merge with the BJP”.

The anti-defection law, enshrined successful the Tenth Schedule to the Constitution by the 52nd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1985, seeks to curb rampant floor-crossing by elected representatives successful Parliament and State legislatures. It provides for the disqualification of a legislator if they voluntarily relinquish rank of the governmental enactment connected whose summons they were elected, oregon if they vote, oregon abstain from voting, successful defiance of directions issued by their enactment oregon by an authorised functionary.