Three former AAP MLAs join BJP

New Delhi, Nov 30: Three former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday ahead of the Delhi civic polls, criticizing their former party and its leader Arvind Kejriwal over issues of corruption and neglect of volunteers.

 

 

 

Joining the BJP at the party’s national headquarters on DDU Marg, two-time former MLA from Delhi Cantt Commando (ex) Surender Singh alleged that AAP distributed all MCD poll tickets in exchange for money.

 

 

 

Singh had quit the AAP after he was denied a ticket by the party in the 2020 Assembly polls from the Delhi Cantt seat. The two other former AAP MLAs who joined the BJP were Raju Dhingan and Chaudhary Fateh Singh. The three ex-MLAs defected to BJP in the presence of former Union minister Vijay Goel, BJP’s Delhi unit president Adesh Gupta, and the party’s national spokesperson Sambit Patra. “The Aam Aadmi Party is mired in corruption and its own leaders and workers are not supporting them. The proof of Aam Aadmi Party’s corruption is that three of their former leaders are joining the BJP family today,” said Patra.

 

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He alleged that the Delhi Chief Minister failed in his promise to send the corrupt to jail, something that he often said he would before he came to power.