Congress Leader Criticizes AAP MPs' Defection to BJP, Calls It Opportunism

Political rhetoric has intensified over the defection of 7 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MPs, including Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha, to the BJP. Congress leader and former Chhattisgarh deputy chief minister TS Singh Deo has now reacted to this development. He has said that this is opportunism and this is another example of the BJP's Operation Lotus, who lives in this opportunity how to stay in power and how to take advantage of it. He also targeted Raghav Chadha and said that he is giving a message of opportunism to the country by becoming a part of the party against which he kept fighting, which he called a goonda. He said in a conversation with news agency IANS, "This is opportunism. This is another example of the BJP's Operation Lotus. How to stay in power and how to take advantage of it. And examples of this are coming out one after another." Senior Congress leader of Chhattisgarh S. T. Singh Deo said, "This is the political character of Raghav Chadha, who keeps on fighting against the party, who is called a goonda."