NEW DELHI: The axe could finally fall on three AAP MLAs who had been sidelined by the party for various reasons over the past two years. The final straw for the party came when at least two of them, former minister Asim Ahmed Khan and Bijwasan MLA Col Seherawat, campaigned against AAP during the Punjab and Goa elections recently. Pankaj Pushkar, the third MLA who has openly aligned with Yogendra Yadav ’s Swaraj Party, reportedly spoke in favour of the outfit during a corporation election meeting held in Delhi recently.Party sources said that “concerned” Delhiites have met senior party members over the past few days and are likely to formally complain against the these MLAs to the Speaker very soon. “Their grouse is that they voted for AAP in the 2015 election and if the MLAs are acting against the party, it lets down the electorate,” said party sources.Pushkar, the MLA from Timarpur, has been in party’s bad books since he sided with expelled party members Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan in 2015 and then openly aligned with their political party Swaraj India. Khan, who was the minister for environment, was sacked by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in October 2015 on charges of corruption. Subsequently, Khan, an MLA from Matia Mahal, accused Kejriwal and other party members of conspiring to have him and his family members killed.Sehrawat, who has contested thrice from an AAP ticket, fell from grace when he first spoke out against Yadav’s and Bhushan’s expulsion and then later, in 2016, accused various party members, including Kejriwal, of taking sexual favours in return for tickets and other works.Sources explained that action against the three, if initiated, would be under the anti-defection law as per the 10th schedule of the Constitution. “Under this law, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, one need not deflect to another party but any omission, speech or activity against the party can be perceived as voluntarily giving up its membership. If the Speaker finds merit in the complaint, he will invite both the complainant and accused to present their cases and then deliver a verdict. This will be a quasi-judicial proceeding and affected parties may appeal against the decision in court,” explained government sources.While all three MLAs have openly spoken out against the party at various points, AAP had refused to take action against them saying that they would at least be bound to follow the party line under a whip. As a senior party member explained, if a legislator had chosen to work against the party, there was no reason that he or she should be allowed to continue as an MLAs. “If the party were to suspend them, they would continue as MLAs. If someone has won an election because they were affiliated with a particular party but now chose to work against the same party, they should also resign as MLAs,” he said.AAP has 66 MLAs in a 70 member Assembly, with one MLA, Jarnail Singh having resigned recently as he was to contest the assembly elections in Punjab. A bye-election for his constituency, Rajouri Garden, is expected to be held within the next few weeks.