AAP Workers Protest Defecting MPs in Punjab

Workers from the Aam Aadmi Party protested outside the residences of several Rajya Sabha members in Punjab on Saturday, a day after the lawmakers announced their departure from the party to join the Bharatiya Janata Party. The demonstrations, held in cities including Jalandhar, Ludhiana, and Phagwara, involved graffiti labeling the defecting MPs as traitors and chants accusing them of disloyalty to Punjab's interests.

The defections were revealed on Friday by AAP Rajya Sabha MPs Raghav Chadha and Sandeep Pathak, who stated they were leaving the party along with five others: Ashok Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Rajinder Gupta, Swati Maliwal, and Vikramjit Sahney. Chadha, addressing reporters, explained the move stemmed from concerns over the party's direction. "Today, every true patriot who nurtured the Aam Aadmi Party with their blood and sweat and joined it with great expectations has either left the Aam Aadmi Party or is leaving it," he said. "Every honest, hardworking person feels that there is no longer room for work in the Aam Aadmi Party. And the Aam Aadmi Party is now walking on a wrong path that no one wants to be associated with."

Chadha, Mittal, and Pathak formally joined...