Punjab poll shake-up: 3 AAP MLAs join BJP to give Kejriwal's party a jolt before 2027 elections

In a setback for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ahead of the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections, three former party leaders, Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra, Chetan Singh Jouramajra and Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at its headquarters in New Delhi on Monday. The BJP announced their induction in a post on X. A video shared by news agency ANI showed Pathanmajra and Jouramajra raising slogans of "BJP Zindabad" during the induction.