00:00Amid Raghav Chanda's continued silence on crucial issues related to the Aam Admi Party and its top leaders,
00:06AAP has axed Raghav Chanda from Deputy Leader Post.
00:10Aam Admi Party MP Ashok Mittal is to be named Deputy Leader of Aam Admi Party in the Rajasabha.
00:16Notably, Raghav Chanda had not met Aam Admi Party Chief Aravind Kejriwal after the top AAP leaders
00:22who were discharged from the Excise Policy CBI case.
00:26Raghav Chanda has not even put out a single social media post for the AAP leaders
00:32post the Excise Policy case relief.
00:34Let me take this to my colleague Amit Bharadwaj who is tracking all the details.
00:37Amit, was this a move waiting to happen?
00:40Was Raghav Chanda expecting this?
00:41Any response from him yet?
00:47Absolutely right.
00:48You know, Raghav Chanda must have anticipated this particular move
00:51and possibly this is just the first step towards worsening of relationship between Aam Admi Party
00:58and Raghav Chanda, the Rajasabha MP from AAP, from Punjab.
01:02Now, we need to understand the context.
01:05What has happened is that Excise Policy case was a litmus test for a lot of leaders within the Aam
01:10Admi Party
01:10and over the period of time, initially, Raghav Chanda would also condemn the crackdown
01:16by the, you know, investigative agencies and the allegations that were put against Arvind Kejriwal
01:21and top leaders of Aam Admi Party.
01:22Raghav Chanda would come out to defend his leaders.
01:25But if you go by the eventual trajectory of this particular story,
01:30what happened that one, Arvind Kejriwal, Manishi Sodhi and other top leaders of Aam Admi Party
01:34were discharged by the lower court in the Excise Policy case of the CBI,
01:41Raghav Chanda did not even put out a single tweet,
01:44let alone meeting Arvind Kejriwal or any other top leader of Aam Admi Party
01:50who were discharged in that particular case.
01:52And that was signal enough to give a sense as to how this particular leader of Aam Admi Party,
01:59who also happens to be part of the PAC,
02:02which is the biggest decision-making body of Aam Admi Party,
02:06is not, the relations between the party and him are not going in the right direction.
02:11And the first step towards that has been taken by Aam Admi Party,
02:15a big setback for Raghav Chanda in terms of parliamentarian
02:20because you would realize as well in the past few months
02:24as to how Raghav himself has shaped himself in the Rajasabha,
02:29raising issues in detail that concerns the middle class or upper middle class at large,
02:35be it the geek workers issue, the telecom or the, you know, costly food at airport.
02:41So he was able to do that at length in the Rajasabha
02:44because he was deputy leader of the party in Rajasabha.
02:47Now that he does not has that post,
02:49Ashok Mithal, the Aam Admi Party, Rajasabha MP from Punjab,
02:52has been named the deputy leader of AAP in Rajasabha.
02:56How much time Raghav will get in the house?
02:58That is a big question.
02:59But party says that we have not done it.
03:01The party sources are maintaining that we have not taken this move to curtail Raghav.
03:05Rather, it's just a change in leadership.
03:07And now the assembly elections in Punjab are also to happen in 2027.
03:14So a lot of risk in the leadership will also happen.
03:17But certainly the way things had developed in the past few months,
03:21that this was writing on the wall.
03:23Back to you.
03:24Oh yes, absolutely, Amit.
03:25And while the Aam Admi Party may not admit to it,
03:28but fact does remain that the expectations from Raghav Chadha,
03:32especially with regards to the exercise duty case, were higher.
03:36And like you're saying, it was writing on the wall,
03:39given what had been happening for the past many months.
03:43But the decision that has been taken by the Aam Admi Party on Raghav Chadha,
03:48where they have now decided to axe Raghav Chadha from the post of deputy leader,
03:55and Aam Admi Party MP Ashok Mittal will be named deputy leader of the Aam Admi Party in Rajasabha.
04:01Now whether this will further affect ties of Raghav Chadha and the Aam Admi Party,
04:06or will this even raise questions regarding his existence in the party?
04:10How exactly will he continue are the many, many angles that will soon become the focus.
04:16But for the moment, the Aam Admi Party has finally broken its silence,
04:20and they have decided to axe Raghav Chadha from the post of deputy leader.
04:26This after Raghav Chadha had not met with Aam Admi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal,
04:31after the top-up leaders were discharged from the excise policy CBI case,
04:35Raghav Chadha had not even made a single social media post or any word on that
04:41after the Aam Admi Party leaders post the excise policy case relief had been out.
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