Rajya Sabha chairman accepts merger of 7 AAP MPs with BJP

New Delhi: Rajya Sabha president C P Radhakrishnan has officially accepted the merger of 7 AAP MPs with BJP - taking the governing party's spot successful the 245-member precocious House to 113.With Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Swati Maliwal, Vikramjit Sahney and Rajinder Gupta defecting, AAP's spot successful RS present stands astatine three. The RS website showed the MPs arsenic portion of BJP.On Monday, parliamentary affairs curate Kiren Rijiju said the president has accepted merger of the 7 AAP MPs with BJP. "Welcome to nation-building NDA nether PM Modi's visionary enactment and goodbye to 'tukde-tukde' INDI alliance," helium said.However, AAP MP Sanjay Singh - who had written to Radhakrishnan Sunday seeking disqualification of the MPs nether Constitution's Tenth Schedule - successful different missive Monday sought clarification from the RS caput wide connected what ground the enactment presumption (number of MPs) of AAP had been altered successful RS records.If this is not clarified, AAP volition determination tribunal connected this "unilateral decision", Singh said. This was done "without immoderate anterior intimation to oregon concurrence of AAP oregon its level person successful the House", helium said.

In his Monday letter, Singh said immoderate arbitrary alteration successful enactment position, without pursuing owed process would person "serious consequences" connected rights of the enactment and its members. He sought an inquiry.Meanwhile, a conception of ineligible experts highlighted the 10th Tenth Schedule's inability to halt governmental defections erstwhile they get standard of "merger". The "merger" objection nether the schedule's para 4 stipulates successful sub-paragraph 2 that specified a merger is valid if astatine slightest two-third of the legislature enactment agrees to it.On his determination to permission AAP, Chadha connected Monday successful a video connection alleged enactment situation successful AAP had turned "toxic". It's trapped successful hands of immoderate corrupt and compromised people, who enactment for idiosyncratic gains, helium claimed.Congress' Jairam Ramesh said the lone astonishment successful chairman's determination is that it "took truthful long". "Till recently, BJP had questions connected their integrity and claimed to person evidence, but each that is present forgotten. ED was raiding immoderate until recently, but 1 tin stake that those volition halt now," helium said. "Lotus has go Lootus".