Two sitting Punjab MLAs who quit the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday reached the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in Delhi on Monday, November 2, for the formal joining event, the news agency ANI reported. Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra, the MLA from Sanaur, and Chetan Singh Jouramajra, the MLA from Samana and a former Punjab minister — both from Patiala district — were seen raising 'BJP zindabad' slogans outside the headquarters in a video shared by ANI, and were expected to formally join the party shortly.

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The Delhi move is the next step in a sequence Awaaz Punjab reported a day earlier: both MLAs resigned from AAP's primary membership on Sunday, November 1 — Pathanmajra by a letter to party convenor Arvind Kejriwal and Jouramajra through a social media post — a day after AAP released its first list of 40 candidates for the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections, a list in which neither name appeared. AAP had suspended both leaders for alleged anti-party activities before the resignations were announced.

AAP to petition the Speaker; leaders trade charges

AAP said it would approach Punjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan to seek cancellation of the legislative membership of both MLAs, Mirror Now reported. Punjab AAP president Aman Arora accused the BJP of trying to induct leaders who had been expelled from or had left other parties, while AAP chief spokesperson Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal described the BJP as functioning like a scrap shop for discarded political figures — both remarks are the party's characterisations, reported as its response.

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The two MLAs, for their part, had accused the Bhagwant Mann-led government of failing on the issues they campaigned on. At a Chandigarh press conference before quitting, Jouramajra cited the state's drug crisis, the death of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota in Mansa and unfulfilled promises on minimum support price for crops and teacher shortages, while Pathanmajra alleged — as his claim — that the Punjab government is controlled by the party leadership in Delhi and that state ministers cannot approve even basic files on their own. These are the leaders' allegations; the Punjab government has rejected similar charges in the past.

A third exit the same morning — and what is not confirmed

Separately on Monday, Amritsar North MLA Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh announced his resignation from the Punjab Legislative Assembly itself, in a letter to the Speaker taking effect from November 1, calling for 'Punjab First' clean politics — a development Awaaz Punjab reported earlier today. Singh has announced no next party move. One report carried by an aggregator suggested he too was set to join the BJP; that claim is not confirmed by ANI's reporting or by Singh himself and should not be treated as fact.

Pathanmajra's background includes a pending police case: he was arrested in Gwalior in March 2026 in connection with a case filed by a woman from Zirakpur and was granted regular bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in May 2026, Mirror Now reported. The case involves allegations, not a conviction. What happens next turns on two formal steps: the completion of the two MLAs' BJP joining in Delhi, and the Speaker's decision if AAP files its disqualification petition — either would be a further development in Punjab's fast-moving 2027 election contest.