Punjab Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan accepted rebel AAP MLA Chetan Singh Jouramajra's resignation. The three BJP defections have reduced the ruling party's House strength to 91.Chetan Singh Jouramajra.

Chandigarh,Nov 3, 2026 23:36 ISTPunjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan on Tuesday accepted the resignation of rebel Aam Aadmi Party MLA Chetan Singh Jouramajra, news agency Press Trust of India reported, citing an official.Jouramajra joined the BJP in Delhi on Monday along with rebel AAP MLAs Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh and Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra. Their departure has reduced the AAP's strength in the 117-member Punjab Assembly from 94 to 91.The resignations of Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh and Pathanmajra were accepted by Sandhwan on Monday.

With the acceptance of Jouramajra's resignation, the Samana Assembly seat has fallen vacant, the official told PTI.The Congress has 16 MLAs in the House, while the Shiromani Akali Dal has three, the BJP two and the Bahujan Samaj Party one. One seat is held by an Independent.

Meanwhile, AAP's Majitha constituency in-charge Talbir Singh Gill criticised Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh for joining the BJP, accusing him of playing politics over the sensitive issues of the Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura firing incidents.“Kunwar had built his politics around this very issue for a long time. But today, by going and sitting in the lap of the BJP, an ally of the political camp he had criticised, he has exposed his opportunistic and disgraceful mindset,” Gill said in a statement, according to PTI.

Gill said Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh used to begin every press conference by claiming that he was conducting an impartial investigation into the Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura firing incidents and that former chief minister Amarinder Singh was not supporting him.“Trusting him, the Aam Aadmi Party inducted him into the party, gave him an election ticket and made him an MLA. However, soon after his victory, suspicions had already begun to emerge that his covert links were with the BJP, following which the party had started distancing itself from him,” Gill said.The resignations of the three rebel MLAs have left the AAP with 91 members in the Punjab Assembly, while Jouramajra's Samana seat has become vacant.- Ends