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The Aam Aadmi Party’s legislature party in the Rajya Sabha was splitting and a faction was merging with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, said AAP MP Raghav Chadha. Chadha claimed that two-thirds of the AAP’s members in the Upper House of Parliament were supporting him.

The announcement was made at a press conference alongside AAP MPs Sandeep Pathak and Ashok Mittal. Other AAP MPs Harbhajan Singh, Rajinder Gupta, Vikram Sahney and Swati Maliwal were supporting the decision to merge with the BJP, Chadha claimed. The AAP had 10 members in the Rajya Sabha before the split. It has three MPs in the Lok Sabha.

AAP leader Sanjay Singh said that the seven MPs had “backstabbed the people of Punjab”. Read on.

The Supreme Court was informed that 65 election duty officers are among persons deleted from West Bengal's voter lists during the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls. Their counsel told the court that while the officers’ duty orders mention their Electors’ Photo Identity Card numbers, “now those numbers are deleted”.

However, the bench told the petitioners to approach the appellate tribunal against their exclusion.

The court also said that if persons whose names were deleted from voter lists are able to make a case showing urgency, the appellate tribunals may give them out-of-turn hearings. The second phase of polling in Bengal will be held on April 29. Read on.

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that the Opposition parties have submitted a fresh notice in Rajya Sabha seeking a motion to remove Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Ramesh added that there are “nine specific charges” against Kumar that cannot be “whitewashed”.

The notice was signed by 73 MPs. On April 6, Rajya Sabha Chairman CP Radhakrishnan and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla rejected notices submitted by Opposition MPs seeking the removal of Kumar. They had not provided reasons for their decision. Read on.

The Mumbai Police said that a complaint has been filed against a woman who confronted Bharatiya Janata Party leader Girish Mahajan and police personnel for blocking a road during a protest march on Tuesday. However, it said no first information report has been registered in the matter.

The incident had taken place when the protest by the state's ruling Mahayuti coalition led to traffic congestion in the Worli area.

The woman, whose identity is unclear, reportedly stepped out of her vehicle, and was heard asking Mahajan, a state minister, and police officers not to block the road and protest at a ground instead. Read on.

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