New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) faced a seismic shock on Friday as heavyweight leaders and sitting Rajya Sabha MPs, Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal, Sandeep Pathak, among others, formally announced their departure.The move to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) began with a high-voltage press conference, where Chadha, flanked by Ashok Mittal and Sandeep Pathak, read out a carefully worded statement denouncing AAP policies since 2013. Chadha, once projected as the party’s second‑run…
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New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha on Friday announced the merger of two-thirds of the party’s House members – 7 out of 10 – with the BJP, citing “suffocation” and lack of opportunity to serve people in the outfit that he founded with Arvind Kejriwal a decade ago. Addressing a press conference along with AAP MPs Ashok Mittal and Sandeep Pathak, Chadha said, “We have decided that we, the 2/3rd members belonging to the AAP in Rajya Sabha, ex…
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Raghav Chadha, the senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP, dropped a political bombshell on Friday, by announcing his exit from the party along with six other party lawmakers – all headed to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). He said that the two-thirds faction of the AAP Rajya Sabha MPs, comprising a breakaway faction, will merge with the BJP in the coming days.Chadha made the announcement in a press conference, accompanied by another party Rajya Sabha MP, Sandee…
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Rajya Sabha member, Raghav Chadha, on Friday greeted Harivansh on beginning his third term as the Deputy Chairman of the Upper House. “As the recently removed Deputy Leader of the Aam Aadmi Party, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak and to congratulate Harivansh Ji on beginning his third innings as the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha,” Chadha said.”In his previous term, my personal equation with Harivansh Ji was ‘khatta-meetha’…
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) The Ministry of Home Affairs has provided security cover to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha. He will receive ‘Z+ category’ security in both Delhi and Punjab, sources said on Wednesday.This followed the Punjab government’s decision to withdraw Chadha’s security detail earlier in the day. This action also occurred amid a growing rift between Chadha and the AAP in recent weeks.According to sources, paramilitary forces will be deployed to provide sec…
New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) Amid internal rift within the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha on Friday shared a message on Instagram asserting that his parliamentary work would speak for itself. Taking to the social media platform Instagram, Chadha posted a video and wrote, “With respect, to those questioning my parliamentary performance, I’ll let my work do the talking.”The video featured a compilation of his interventions and questions raised in the Rajya Sabha, highlig…
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) As the political turmoil continued over the removal of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha from the post of Deputy Leader in the Rajya Sabha, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Friday, left no stone unturned to criticise the party and its Convener Arvind Kejriwal, calling the latter “insecure” and AAP as “liphafa party”.BJP National Spokesperson Shazia Ilmi said she was neither surprised nor did she found anything unusual in this.”This is the Aam Aadmi Party’s styl…
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Widening the rift within the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), its Delhi President Saurabh Bharadwaj on Friday hit back at MP Raghav Chadha following the latter’s sharp-worded response after he was replaced by MP Ashok Mittal as Deputy Leader in the Rajya Sabha, asserting that Chadha was sent to the upper house to raise issues of Punjab while also accusing him of being “scared to walkout” with the Opposition.”I do not think Raghav Chadha needed to get so upset that he has almost o…
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Delhi Lieutenant Governor T.S. Sandhu met Aam Aadmi Party’s new Deputy Leader in Rajya Sabha, Ashok Mittal, at Lok Niwas, an official said on Friday. “Well known entrepreneur, Hon’ble MP & Dy Leader – AAP in Rajya Sabha @DrAshokKMittal, called on Hon’ble @LtGovDelhi, Sardar @SandhuTaranjitS, at Lok Niwas,” said a post on social media.Sixty-one-year-old Mittal, a businessman-turned-politician and chancellor of a private university, is also a member of the P…
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Amid the ongoing rift within the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Atishi, the Leader of Opposition in Delhi, responded on Friday after AAP MP Raghav Chadha spoke out following his removal as Deputy Leader in the Rajya Sabha and the subsequent appointment of Ashok Mittal to that position. She stated that if the BJP has jumped to his side and is praising him, and even questioning why he hasn’t joined them (BJP), it clearly shows where everyone stands. This comes after Chadha took…