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Blow to Kejriwal’s ‘dictatorship’, Rekha Gupta on 7 AAP MPs’ joining BJP

NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said on Friday that the exodus of seven Rajya Sabha MPs of the AAP is a “direct blow” to the “dictatorship” of party supremo Arvind Kejriwal.The AAP suffered a jolt on Friday as seven of its Rajya Sabha MPs, including Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal and Sandeep Pathak, quit the party, with Chadha asserting that the Arvind Kejriwal-led party had strayed from its principles.Harbhajan Singh, Rajendra Gupta, Vikram Sahni and Swati Maliwal were the other four parliamentarians in the group of seven.In a post on“Now only corrupt people are there in your party and not the common man,” she said.The AAP termed the resignation of the seven MPs a “betrayal of Punjab” and accused the BJP of engineering the split by using the fear of central agencies.