New Delhi, Apr 24: Rajya Sabha MPs Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal and Sandeep Pathak, who announced their resignations from AAP, joined the BJP in the presence of party chief Nitin Nabin in New Delhi on Friday.

Chadha, Mittal and Pathak received bouquets from Nabin and greeted other BJP leaders present at the party office.

Apart from Pathak, Mittal and Chadha, Swati Maliwal, Harbhajan Singh, Vikram Sahney, and Rajinder Gupta resigned from AAP and are set to join the BJP.

Earlier today, Chadha said he quit AAP, a party that was formed on an anti-corruption plank in 2012, along with six other AAP MPs, and said they will merge with the BJP. The move came weeks after Chadha was removed as the Deputy Leader of AAP in the Rajya Sabha and was replaced by Mittal in the Upper House. Subsequently, Mittal also joined the BJP along with Chadha and Pathak.

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"As per the Constitution, two-thirds of the total MPs of a party can merge with another party. We have submitted a letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman CP Radhakrishnan in this regard today, along with all the required documents," Chadha told reporters.

With seven of 10 AAP Rajya Sabha MPs switching to the BJP, this leaves only three parliamentarians in the Upper House.