A day after resigning from the Aam Aadmi Party, eight Delhi MLAs the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday.
This comes less than a week before the Assembly elections in the national capital on February 5. The votes will be counted on February 8.
The legislators are , the outgoing MLA from Trilokpuri, , who represents the Janakpuri seat, Kasturba Nagar MLA , Mehrauli MLA , Bijwasan MLA , Palam MLA , Adarsh Nagar MLA and Madipur MLA Girish Soni.
The eight MLAs the BJP in the presence of the Hindutva party’s Delhi chief Virendra Sachdeva and National Vice-President Baijayant Panda.
It was a historic day as the MLAs had freed themselves of the “AAPda [disaster]”, Panda said, adding that he hoped Delhi too would be freed from it after the polls.
Apart from Yadav, none of the other legislators who resigned were given a ticket by the Aam Aadmi Party to fight the upcoming polls.
On December 20, the party replaced Yadav with Mahender Chaudhary as its Mehrauli candidate. This came after Yadav was convicted in a Quran desecration case.
The case dates back to June 2016, when torn pages of the Quran were found in Punjab’s Malerkotla. The incident had triggered unrest and violence in the town.
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