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The development comes while the Delhi High Court was expected to appoint three senior advocates as amici curiae in the case, to represent Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, and Durgesh Pathak.

Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma had said the court would appoint amicus curiae for the AAP leaders after decided to go legally unrepresented

Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma made the statement after the three AAP leaders declared they would go without legal representation in the excise policy case before the High Court.

Till the evening before the rebellion, the number cruncher seen as close to the AAP chief – and now allegedly in AAP’s crosshairs – was conferring with him how to keep straying MPs back

The Delhi High Court on April 20 had dismissed the plea of Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and others in which they sought recusal of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma in the excise policy case.

Also present were senior BJP leader Vijay Goel and BJP MLAs Abhay Verma and Ajay Mahawar, and former Congress MLA Subhash Chopra. Chief Minister Rekha Gupta had attended Prof Singh’s funeral on April 18.

Even before AAP crisis, Opposition camp has repeatedly accused BJP of conducting “Operation Lotus” to split their parties and form coalition govts with breakaway groups in state after state

With people coming up with newer forms of subverting the constitutional order and innovative ways of avoiding defection, there is a need to seriously reconsider the way parties are organised

This comes shortly after Raghav Chadha at a press conference said that two-thirds of the AAP MPs in Rajya Sabha will be merging with the BJP "exercise the provisions of the Constitution of India."

Pathak was an associate professor at IIT Delhi, researching photovoltaic cells, until officially joining the AAP on the heels of the 2020 Delhi and 2022 Punjab Assembly elections.