Raghav Chadha has deleted all posts criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has claimed. Late on Saturday, senior AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj took to X to make these allegations, and also posted screenshots of Chadha’s deleted posts to support his claim that all content critical of the Center has been removed.
“Raghav Chadha has completely cleaned out his X timeline – all his old posts criticizing Modi or BJP are gone,” Bharadwaj wrote. “I searched his entire account thoroughly using the keywords ‘BJP’ and ‘Modi’. The result was surprising – none of the previous criticisms are visible anymore,” he added.
He also claimed that only two posts mentioning Modi remained in Chadha’s timeline, both of which praise the Prime Minister.
“This is not a routine clean-up, but a complete surgical erasure of his digital history. Raghav Chadha, who was a sharp critic of Modi and the BJP, has erased his old image and presented a new, polished one. When someone’s timeline is systematically changed, you can imagine the level of preparedness behind it,” Bharadwaj wrote.
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Raghav Chadha vs AAP heats up
The controversy began after AAP removed Chadha as its deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha a few days ago, replacing him with Ashok Mittal. The move drew criticism from both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party. In response to the decision, Chadha questioned the move, noting that it was raising major public issues, including tax reforms and rising food prices at airports.
AAP hit back, alleging that Chadha only raised convenient issues which allowed him to avoid criticizing the Centre. Bharadwaj also accused Chadha of doing “soft PR”, while Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann alleged that he was “compromised”.
“We are all Arvind Kejriwal’s soldiers. The Center does not care about soft PR or talking about samosas in airport canteens when there are bigger issues at stake,” Bharadwaj said in a video posted on X.
He further alleged that Chadha did not participate in the Opposition strikes in Parliament and failed to raise issues related to Punjab.
“When we sit as opposition members in the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha, many decisions are taken collectively, like organizing a strike. If anyone breaks the party line or does not follow it, he goes against the whip,” Mann said.
Meanwhile, AAP leader Atishi targeted the BJP when asked if Chadha might join the party. “The BJP has a standard operating procedure (SOP). It intimidates, threatens and offers inducements to leaders, and many opposition leaders, either out of fear, pressure or temptation, end up switching sides. Perhaps the same will happen with Raghav Chadha as well,” she said.
Chadha replied
Chadha responded to AAP later on Saturday, rejecting the party’s claims that it did not support the opposition’s actions, including strikes, or that it failed to sign the opposition’s motion to remove the chief election commissioner.
Calling himself a “wounded tiger,” Chadha said in a video, referring to a dialogue from the Bollywood movie Dhurandar: “Gyal hoon isili ghatak hoon”.
“When the opposition leaves Parliament, Raghav Chadha stays – he does not come out. This is not true. I challenge you to mention even a single instance when the opposition decided to withdraw and I did not support them,” he said.
On the issue of non-signature on the motion to remove the Chief Election Commissioner, Chadha said only 50 signatures were required out of the 105 opposition MPs in the Senate, and when “six or seven AAP MPs did not sign the motion”, why was it flagged.
Amid this entire episode, Arvind Kejriwal remained silent.
