New Delhi, Feb. 15 -- In a blow to Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal, three AAP councilors have joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday.

The development comes ahead of the upcoming Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) mayoral election.

The mayoral election is scheduled to be held in April.

The three councilors are Anita Basoya (Andrews Ganj), Nikhil Chaprana (Hari Nagar) and Dharamvir (RK Puram).

Welcoming the councilors, city BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said that Delhi will 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 'Viksit Bharat".

The councilors joined the BJP to make Delhi ...