Three rebel AAP leaders from Punjab join BJP; two had been suspended by AAP, per Mint
As of the evening of 2 November: Asianet Newsable reports they joined in Delhi; outlets describe the third, a former IPS officer, differently, and Mint says AAP had suspended the other two.
Three rebel leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) from Punjab joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday, 2 November, per Asianet Newsable, which places it in Delhi; Mint also reports the joining. This piece is as of the evening of 2 November. Mint dates the event to Monday, 3 November; 2 November was the Monday.
Who joined
The three are Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra, the Sanour MLA; Chetan Singh Jouramajra, the Samana MLA; and Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, a former IPS officer, per Asianet Newsable. It says Kunwar, described there as the Amritsar North MLA, resigned from the Assembly. Mint says all three were inducted in the presence of Punjab BJP president Kewal Singh Dhillon and Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva, and calls all three MLAs. Asianet Newsable describes the group as two sitting MLAs and a former IPS officer.
AAP's position and the background
Mint says AAP had suspended Pathanmajra and Jouramajra for alleged anti-party activities, and that both resigned from the party on Sunday; it says Kunwar Vijay Pratap announced his resignation from the Punjab Legislative Assembly on Monday and had been suspended from AAP on 29 June 2025. A social post by Nabila Jamal embedded in the Asianet Newsable article, dated 2 November, says AAP maintains the two MLAs were already suspended and that it will seek their disqualification; the article's own text does not say so. Asianet Newsable also says the move came days after AAP announced its first list of 40 candidates, from which Sanour and Samana were missing, and that it followed growing differences within the party's Punjab unit and a series of resignations and suspensions involving its legislators.
Mint says the two first-time MLAs criticised the AAP government over the drug problem, outstanding debt and the failure to amend the anti-sacrilege law despite directions from the Akal Takht. It says Kunwar, a former member of the Punjab Police special investigation team that probed the 2015 Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan police-firing incidents, had been a vocal critic of the AAP government. The Mint article cites PTI for that SIT detail.
Still open
- Whether AAP will in fact seek the disqualification of Pathanmajra and Jouramajra, as the post embedded in Asianet Newsable's article says.
- How the exits affect AAP ahead of the 2027 election; Asianet Newsable says they came days after AAP announced its first list of 40 candidates, which left out Sanour and Samana.
The record 2 reports
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