The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) now has 113 members in the Rajya Sabha after the Upper House’s chairman sanctioned the merger of a group of seven Aam Aadmi Party MPs with it.
The total strength of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition has now risen to 149 in the 245-member House.
The merger has come as a shot in the arm for the BJP and NDA which is now inching closer to two-thirds majority in the Upper House.
AAP on Sunday filed a complaint seeking the disqualification of the seven MPs, citing that the law requires two-thirds of the “original” party to merge.
However, the Rajya Sabha chairman has allowed the merger, prompting a letter from Sanjay Singh, one of the three AAP MPs left in the Rajya Sabha, seeking a clarification on the alteration of his party’s strength in the “official records”.
