Sarita Phogat quits BJP in a month, rejoins AAP
Phogat was among the three councillors who had left the party a day before Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls to elect the final member to the standing committee, disrupting AAP’s majority in the assembly.
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AAP leader Manish Sisodia welcomes Malviya Nagar ward councillor Sarita Phogat to the party Monday.(Image source: X/msisodia) Malviya Nagar ward councillor Sarita Phogat Monday rejoined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over two weeks after she quit the party in September last week to join the BJP.
Phogat was among the three councillors who had left the party a day before Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls to elect the final member to the standing committee, disrupting AAP’s majority in the assembly.
Welcoming Phogat back, former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia took to the social media platform X and said, “Sister Sarita Phogat, councillor from Malviya Nagar, has left the BJP and returned to the Aam Aadmi Party family. She has been a hard-working worker of the party since the inception of AAP and today she has started working with the resolve to make Arvind Kejriwal sit on the Chief Minister’s chair again.”
Phogat is not the first councillor to rejoin the AAP within a few days after quitting. Earlier, Shahbad Dairy councillor Ram Chander who had left the party with four other councillors on August 24 had rejoined the party after four days. He alleged the BJP of “abducting and threatening him”. After Phogat’s switch, AAP MLA from Malviya Nagar, Somnath Bharti, had expressed concern over her joining the BJP.
“During the joining held shamelessly at BJP headquarters, Sarita Ji didn’t even speak a word and hence I am worried about her, more so because she has constantly been with me and never showed any discontentment of any kind…She is in trauma and BJP seems to have tortured her …to force her to join BJP. Shame on BJP! Since her house is locked, phones are off…she is not reachable to even her own family…She seems to have been abducted by BJP,” he had said, requesting the Delhi Police to check her whereabouts.
According to Bharti, Phogat had signed an agreement and formally pledged to not leave the party, back when she received the councillor ticket from AAP.
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