Chandigarh, April 24 (IANS) Punjab Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) General Secretary Baltej Pannu on Friday blamed Union Home Minister Amit Shah for a coordinated attempt to weaken the party by misusing Central agencies and engineering defections of its seven Members of Parliament. “Amit Shah is actively working to weaken AAP by engineering defections and using Raghav Chadha as a tool to execute this plan. There are credible reports within the party that Amit Shah offered Raghav Chadha a Union ministeri…
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New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), in its first response to the exit of Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha-led seven Parliamentarians, tore into them for betrayal and stated that people of Punjab won’t forget and forgive those “traitors” who stabbed them in their back. AAP’s top leadership, from party convenor Arvind Kejriwal to Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann to senior party leaders, all saw a ‘BJP hand’ in the conspiracy and ripped into it for ‘running a vicious campaign’ to p…
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal on Friday announced her exit from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), levelling serious allegations against party chief Arvind Kejriwal, including claims of patronising “thuggish elements”, rising corruption, and incidents of harassment against women.Her decision comes after Raghav Chadha and six other Rajya Sabha MPs decided to join the BJP.Announcing her resignation in a post on X, Maliwal said she could no longer remain associated with the pa…
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 20 (IANS) The Delhi High Court’s Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma on Monday rejected a plea filed by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal seeking her recusal from hearing matters related to the alleged Delhi Excise Policy case. Pronouncing the decision, Justice Sharma said that while the “easier path” would have been to recuse without hearing the application, she chose to decide the issue on the merits in the interest of institutional integrity.”While I began penn…
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…
Mumbai, April 9 (IANS) Raghav Chadha hosted Sabhay Dutt at his home. The Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha member heaped praise on the Bollywood star’s latest performance in the blockbuster duology “Dhurandhar” and said that he is always rooting for him. Raghav took to Instagram, where he shared a string of pictures from Sanjay’s visit to his abode. The politician shared that Sanjay’s the “warmest” person he knows.“Had the pleasure of hosting at my place, some time ago, one of the warm…