India, Feb. 9 -- In the run-up to the Delhi elections, eight sitting Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs, dropped by the party ahead of the vote, switched to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) just days before voting. When results were declared on Saturday, AAP lost all eight of these seats.

Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said the outcome underscored how corruption had become a key issue in the election.

"The AAP MLAs were very close to Kejriwal and knew how he was no longer the common man that he once claimed to be. The results of the elections showed that the real anti-incumbency was against Arvind Kejriwal but some leaders in AAP conveniently blamed the anti-incumbency on the MLAs and dropped several MLAs," said Kapoor.

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