New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha said on Saturday that he and six other Members of Parliament chose to leave the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as the party had fallen into “corrupt and compromised hands”, leaving them “disappointed, disenchanted and disgusted”. Chadha triggered a major political development on Friday by announcing his resignation from AAP along with six other Rajya Sabha MPs — Swati Maliwal, Harbhajan Singh, Sandeep Pathak, Ashok Mittal, Rajinder Gupta and Vi…
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Rohtak, April 25 (IANS) Following the resignation of Rajya Sabha MP, Raghav Chadha, and six other Members of Parliament from the AAP to join the BJP, AAP leader Anurag Dhanda on Saturday alleged that the BJP is acting out of fear due to the party’s growing influence, particularly in Gujarat. Speaking to IANS, Dhanda claimed that AAP’s rapid expansion has unsettled the ruling party. “The BJP is afraid of the Aam Aadmi Party. The way AAP is rapidly progressing in Gujarat has unnerved them,” …
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) A day after former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Swati Maliwal, along with six other Rajya Sabha MPs, including Raghav Chadha, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), she cited AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal’s “corruption, hooliganism and lies” as the reason. Maliwal also clarified that she has not joined the BJP under any compulsion.During an interaction with IANS, she rekindled her time with the AAP.Maliwal said: “I have been working with Arvind Kejriwal since 2006. I left…
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) The resignation of Rajya Sabha MP, Raghav Chadha, and six other MPs from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to join the BJP has sparked strong reactions, with social activist Anna Hazare and several BJP leaders weighing in prominently on the issue. Speaking to reporters, Hazare emphasised that such political decisions are part of democratic freedom.“In a democracy, where to go and where to stay is a matter of individual choice and opinion,” he said.He added that if leaders …
Chandigarh, April 24 (IANS) Reacting to the departure of two-thirds of AAP Rajya Sabha Members of Parliament, Punjab BJP working President Ashwani Sharma on Friday said that the development raised serious concerns about Arvind Kejriwal’s leadership and reflects his increasingly authoritarian style of functioning. He said that such “large-scale exits expose the deep cracks within the party and indicate growing dissent against Kejriwal’s way of running the organisation”. Sharma further criticise…
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders on Friday criticised the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) after seven of the latter’s Rajya Sabha MPs, including Raghav Chadha, quit the party to join the BJP. The BJP leaders said that since many of the founding members of the party have left it, AAP’s leadership needs to “self-introspect”.Speaking to reporters, BJP MP Bansuri Swaraj said, “This is the moment when the AAP leadership needs to do self-introspection because when another one …
Kolkata, April 24 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday took a jibe at Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, terming his statement attributing the Trinamool Congress government’s “corruption” for the BJP’s rising chances in the West Bengal Assembly polls, a “late realisation”.”It has been realised very late,” Shah told IANS in reaction to Gandhi, who in a video message on X, had said: “If Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had run a clean government and had not polarised Benga…
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…
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva on Friday said that in the name of bringing change in the political landscape, Arvind Kejriwal formed the Aam Aadmi Party but rapidly turned from a party convener into a party dictator.On a day when a faction of AAP’s Rajya Sabha MPs merged with the BJP, Sachdeva said Kejriwal misused power and dragged the party into the mire of corruption, as a result of which, from Shashi Bhushan to Raghav Chadha, all founding members of “AAP…
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) After a political storm erupted on Friday with the exit of seven Rajya Sabha MPs from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), including recently-removed Deputy Leader Raghav Chadha, veteran social activist Anna Hazare attributed it to AAP “prioritising power and money”.The MPs announced their decision to join the BJP.Speaking to reporters, Hazare emphasised that the MPs who left the party might have faced some problems within it.He said: “They (ex-AAP MPs) might have faced some int…