AAP MLA Devinder Kumar Sehrawat joins BJP

New Delhi, May 6 In a major boost for BJP ahead of May 12 Lok Sabha poll in Delhi, rebel AAP MLA Devinder Kumar Sehrawat on Monday joins the saffron party in nearness of Union Minister Vijay Goel.

Sehrawat, a resigned colonel, had won from Bijwasan Assembly constituency of Delhi in 2015 Assembly election. He was suspended from AAP in September 2016 for anti-party activities.

Sehrawat had earned the ire of party's high command after he had accused AAP leaders in Punjab of “exploiting women” as an end-result of tickets. "Sehrawat has been suspended by the disciplinary advisory group till pending enquiry," AAP's the then Delhi unit convenor Dilip Pandey had then said.

Sehrawat joined the BJP only three days after another MLA of the party Anil Bajpai joined the BJP. Bajpai, the AAP MLA from Gandhinagar, joined the BJP within the sight of gathering national VP Shyam Jaju and Union Minister Vijay Goel.

In the wake of joining the party, Bajpai had slammed the AAP, accusing the party of insulting its legislators.

Bajpai joined the BJP just a day after Goel claimed that at least 14 AAP administrators are in contact with the BJP and are considering leaving the Arvind Kejriwal-drove party to join the BJP.

Meanwhile, addressing a press conference session on Monday Kejriwal affirmed that the BJP is using its money power to lure away the leaders of AAP and other parties. He refered the recent speech of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in which the latter had said that at least 40 TMC MLAs are in touch with him. Kejriwal added that the BJP is also trying to lure away the AAP MLAs in Delhi in order to destabilise the government.