Rush Hour: 7 AAP MLAs resign from party days before polls, Trump warns BRICS of tariffs, and more

Less than a week before the Delhi Assembly elections, seven Aam Aadmi Party MLAs resigned from the party. They are Trilokpuri’s Rohit Kumar Mehraulia, Janakpuri’s Rajesh Rishi, Kasturba Nagar’s Madan Lal, Mehrauli’s Naresh Yadav, Bijwasan’s Bhupinder Singh Joon, Palam’s Bhavna Gaur and Adarsh Nagar’s Pawan Sharma.

The polls are scheduled for February 5, with votes to be counted on February 8. Apart from Naresh Yadav, all other legislators who resigned were not given tickets to contest the elections.

On December 20, the party replaced Yadav with Mahender Chaudhary as its Mehrauli candidate. This came after Yadav was convicted in a Quran desecration case dating back to June 2016, when torn pages of the religious text were found in Punjab’s Malerkotla.

In his letter to Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, Yadav alleged that “corruption has infiltrated” the party, while Lal and Gaur said they were resigning as they had lost faith in the former. Read on.

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