New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Celebration MP Raghav Chadha on Friday took a public stand for the primary time in opposition to his social gathering and launched an emotional video questioning why he was stripped of the put up of Rajya Sabha deputy chief, claiming the transfer was a punishment for elevating the ‘Aam Aadmi’ problem in Parliament.
Within the video, titled “Silence, Not Defeat,” Chadha was seen standing outdoors parliament and straight addressed his supporters, asking them what he had finished to deserve his actions.
“I elevate points that aren’t usually mentioned in Parliament and discuss individuals’s considerations. However is it a criminal offense to boost public points, to symbolize the individuals? Did I do one thing flawed?” mentioned the lawmaker, who was as soon as thought-about near AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal.
On Thursday, AAP despatched a letter to the Rajya Sabha Secretariat appointing Ashok Mittal, a member of the social gathering from Punjab, as the brand new deputy chief of the Home to exchange Chadha.
Silence just isn’t defeat
My message to “aam aadmi”
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I used to be silent, I am not defeatedMy message to the “normal public” pic.twitter.com/poUwxsu0S3
— Ragav Chadha (@ragav_chadha) April 3, 2026
Mr Chadha mentioned he couldn’t perceive why the social gathering was being silenced when it raised the precise sorts of points it was based to champion.
“The Aam Aadmi Celebration has knowledgeable the Rajya Sabha Secretariat that I shouldn’t be allowed to talk in Parliament. However why would anybody attempt to silence me? I’m talking on behalf of ‘Aam Aadmi’. I particularly raised the problem of supply employees, costly meals at airports, and the ‘looting’ of toll plazas. The general public has benefited from me talking about these points, so what has the social gathering misplaced?”
He straight appealed to his supporters to proceed to face with them, saying, “Mai aapse aur aapke rie hoon mera haas aur saat mat choriega.”
He additionally warned his social gathering to not misinterpret his restraint and appeared to trace at a political comeback. “Don’t mistake my silence for defeat. I’m like a river that turns right into a flood when the time comes,” he mentioned.
On his X account, he posted a compilation of his speeches to Congress with one caption: an evil eye emoji.
Chadha’s demotion comes amid persistent rumors of a rift between him and Kejriwal. Mr Chadha was noticeably absent from a number of essential public occasions of AAP and didn’t take part within the social gathering’s avenue protests when senior leaders corresponding to Mr Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain have been jailed on corruption costs. He additionally didn’t attend a celebration held after he was granted bail.
Mr. Chadha has been related to AAP since its inception and shortly rose by way of the ranks, being appointed chief secretary of state exchequer on the age of 26 and becoming a member of the Rajya Sabha as an AAP candidate after profitable the 2020 Delhi meeting elections. He was broadly considered Mr. Kejriwal’s blue-eyed boy, the youngest member of the social gathering’s caucus and certainly one of its most seen spokesmen.
His successor, Mittal, downplayed the reshuffle, describing it as a routine democratic train and insisting that every one was properly inside the social gathering. “Earlier than Raghav, ND Gupta was the deputy chief. Our social gathering is a democracy and it is a routine change,” he mentioned.
(Edited by Prerna Madan)
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