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NEW DELHI: Seven rebel Rajya Sabha parliamentarians from the Aam Aadmi Party were officially inducted into the Bharatiya Janata Party, arsenic the Rajya Sabha Secretariat updated enactment positions successful the Upper House.This comes days aft Raghav Chadha, on with six MPs, near AAP and decided to merge with the BJP aft being removed from the station of lawman person successful the Rajya Sabha past month.“We person decided that we, two-thirds of members belonging to the AAP successful the Rajya Sabha, volition workout the provisions of the Constitution of India and merge with the BJP,” Raghav Chadha said astatine a property conference.The BJP had 106 members, and the NDA had 141 (including 7 nominated members).
These totals person present risen to 113 and 148, respectively. By year-end, with implicit 30 seats falling vacant, the BJP expects to summation astatine slightest 5 much seats, inching person to the two-thirds bulk people of 163.Why anti-defection law won’t use to AAP MPsDespite the Tenth Schedule, the anti-defection instrumentality volition not use to AAP MPs, arsenic it allows two-thirds of a legislature enactment to interruption distant and merge with different party.The instrumentality states: “A subordinate of a House shall not beryllium disqualified nether the Tenth Schedule if his archetypal governmental enactment merges with different governmental enactment and helium claims that helium and immoderate different members of his archetypal governmental enactment person go members of specified different governmental enactment or, arsenic the lawsuit whitethorn be, of a caller governmental enactment formed by specified merger.”
If the fig were immoderate less, those seeking to merge would person to springiness up their Upper House membership.Hence, if Chadha had discontinue alone, helium would person had to springiness up his Rajya Sabha membership. But that is not the lawsuit arsenic the outgoing AAP person is joined by Swati Maliwal, Harbhajan Singh, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, Rajinder Gupta and Vikram Sahney.
