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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has boosted its Rajya Sabha presence after seven members of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led by Raghav Chadha joined the party on April 24, 2026.

Before the defection, the BJP had 106 seats. After the inclusion of the seven defections, its tally has now grown to 113. The NDA's total strength is also up now, with it a big lead in the 245-member Upper House (effective strength: 244).

AAP—which had 10 MPs in the Rajya Sabha—has been reduced to three members: Sanjay Singh, N.D. Gupta, and Balbir Singh Seechewal. The seven who defected to the BJP are Raghav Chadha, Swati Maliwal, Harbhajan Singh, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, Rajinder Gupta, and Vikram Sahney.

The decision, under the anti-defection law's two-thirds merger clause, also has a significant political impact, with AAP going into elections with much diminished strength and the ruling coalition's majority in the Upper House strengthened.