New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- The Aam Aadmi Party faced another setback last week when three of its municipal councillors joined the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) mayoral election.

The development in the civic body administration comes a week after the saffron party defeated the AAP in the Delhi assembly polls. The three councillors are Anita Basoya (Andrews Ganj), Nikhil Chaprana (Hari Nagar) and Dharamvir (RK Puram).

Welcoming the councillors, BJP's Delhi unit president Virendra Sachdeva said that the national capital would have a "triple engine" government - at the Centre, assembly and municipal level - at the right time to develop it as the capital of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision under a '...