Rajya Sabha members Raghav Chadha, front right, Sandeep Pathak, left, and others leave after a meeting with BJP national president Nitin Nabin at the party’s headquarters in New Delhi on April 24, 2026. | Photo credit: PTI
Parliament proposed “amalgamation” as a defense against abuse of the anti-overturn law to suppress intra-party dissent and lawmakers’ free speech. Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha and six other former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MPs said it was a cover to join the BJP.
Paragraph 2 paragraph 1 letter (a) of the Tenth Schedule to the Constitution provides that members of “any political party” shall be expelled from the House for defection if they voluntarily renounce their membership of the party. The explanation to paragraph 2 states that the legislator is considered to be a member of the political party that nominated him as a candidate for the election.
Published – 25 April 2026 21:25 IST
