Punjab: Three AAP MLAs join BJP ahead of Assembly polls
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Three Aam Aadmi Party MLAs from Punjab joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday, ahead of the Assembly elections expected to be held early next year, The Indian Express reported.
Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra and Chetan Singh Jauramajra had resigned from the AAP on Sunday, a day after the party released its first list of 40 candidates on Saturday. Their names were not included in the list.
On Monday, Amritsar North MLA Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh resigned from the Assembly and the AAP.
Singh, a former Indian Police Service officer, was among the AAP’s prominent faces in the run-up to the 2022 Assembly elections, when the party came to power in Punjab.
In June 2025, Singh was suspended from the AAP for five years for allegedly indulging in anti-party activities. The suspension came after he questioned the Punjab Vigilance Bureau’s action against Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who was arrested in a disproportionate assets case. Singh had also criticised the AAP government over its handling of several matters.
On Monday, the three joined the BJP at the party’s Delhi headquarters in the presence of its Punjab chief Kewal Singh Dhillon and state in-charge Satish Poonia.
At the joining ceremony, Dhillon described the AAP as a “sinking ship” and said more resignations were expected, The Indian Express reported.
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