In a major political development, Rajya Sabha MPs Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak and Ashok Mittal joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday after severing ties with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The leaders formally joined the BJP at the party headquarters in the presence of Nitin Nabin, who marked the occasion by distributing sweets. Two-thirds AAP MPs in Rajya Sabha back merger Announcing the decision at a joint press conference, Chadha said that two-thirds of AAP’s Rajya Sabha members had opted to merge with the BJP under constitutional provisions. “AAP currently has 10 members in the Rajya Sabha, and seven of them have decided to leave the party and merge with the BJP,” he said. Chadha described the move as a collective decision taken after internal deliberations within the party’s parliamentary wing. Chadha cites ideological shift in AAP Explaining his departure, Chadha alleged that the party had strayed from its founding principles. “The AAP, which I nurtured with my blood and sweat and gave 15 years of my youth to, has deviated from its …