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NEW DELHI: In 2022, when Raghav Chadha entered the Rajya Sabha as a newly elected AAP MP from Punjab, he raised concerns about how India's anti-defect.

The past week saw the defection of 7 AAP Rajya Sabha MPs, led by Raghav Chaddha and Ashok Mittal, into the BJP. This lays bare the fragility and inconsistency within the party.

Seechewal rose to fame for cleaning and reviving the sacred Kali Bein river in the early 2000s to being elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha in 2022 as an Aam Aadmi Party candidate.

Raghav Chadha's marriage to actor Parineeti Chopra also found mention in AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj's rebuttal. | India News

Chadha stated that he left a career as a Chartered Accountant to enter politics and became a founding member of the party, where he dedicated 15 years to the organization, nurturing it with his blood, sweat, and tears.

With the addition of seven MPs, the strength of BJP in the Rajya Sabha would rise from 106 to 113, leaving the party, on its own, about 10 seats short of the majority mark in the House.

With seven AAP MPs in the Rajya Sabha crossing over to the BJP, the Congress on Monday said the Arvind Kejriwal-led party's mask had come off, alleging that it is a party of billionaires that allotted Rajya Sabha seats on the basis of money. Senior Congress leader Ajay Maken alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has functioned as a proxy of the BJP to counter the Congress in states such as Punjab and Gujarat. \"How will the BJP answer this that six Punjab MPs have now joined BJP which got just over six per cent of votes in the Punjab assembly polls,\" the Congress treasurer said. \"I have always said AAP is the B-team of the BJP. They should change their name from Aam Aadmi Party to 'Arabpati Aadmiyon ki party (party of billionaires)',\" Maken said at a press conference. He claimed that Sushil Gupta, when he was in the Congress, told him before leaving the Congress that his \"setting\" with the AAP had been done and he would be given a Rajya Sabha seat.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party now has 113 members. The BJP-led NDA holds about 140 seats in the 245-member House. AAP has been left with three members

BJP inducted Raghav Chadha and six former AAP MPs, boosting its Rajya Sabha strength.