Ghayal hoon isliye ghatak hoon
Dhurandhar
Watch ‘Three Allegations, Zero Truth’: Raghav Chadha Counters AAP After Shock Deputy Leader Snub ‘Three Allegations, Zero Truth’: Raghav Chadha Counters AAP After Shock Deputy Leader Snub
NEW DELHI: Sidelined Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Raghav Chadha on Saturday upped the ante against his party, a day after his colleagues, who are close to supremo Arvind Kerjriwal cornered him for being "less blunt" against the ruling NDA in the Upper House, particuarly Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Chadha said charges levelled against him by the AAP leaders was a part of a "scripted campaign" formulated to tragted him in a "coordinated attack".Without pulling back the punches, the demoted Rajya Sabha member of the AAP borrowed a line from the blockbuster movie "Dhurandar" to attack his party leaders, saying: “" (I'm fatal as I'm wounded).Chadha, once a Kejriwal loyalist and a member of his core team, was up in arms in round two, as he outrightly rejected every charges that the party pinned on him.Launching full frontal attack in a video shared on X, Chadha said he would expose "every lie" and responded to each charge levelled by the party, ending with a popular line from: “Ghayal hoon isliye ghatak hoon” (I may be wounded, but I am also stronger because of it).The AAP leader reponded to all three reasons his party gave behind his demotion in the Upper House, be it the non participation in opposition walkout, ECI impeachment or repeatedly raising "trivial issues".On allegation that he remained seated when opposition walked out of Rjaya Sabha, the AAP leader said it was "completely false and a blatant lie"."I challenge anyone to show even a single instance where the opposition walked out and I did not join them. Parliament has CCTV cameras everywhere — bring out the footage and the truth will be clear," he said.He further rejected the claim that he refused to sign the impeachment motion against the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, saying no leader from the party asked him (formally or informally) to sign it."In fact, several Rajya Sabha MPs from the party themselves did not sign the motion. So why is the blame being placed solely on me? Moreover, such a motion requires 50 signatures in the Rajya Sabha, and that number could easily have been met. So why the noise?" he asked.Tearing into the third allegations of raising "trivial issues" in the Parliament, Chadha said: "I did not go to Parliament to shout, create chaos, or break microphones. I went there to raise public issues. I have spoken on GST, income tax, Punjab’s water, Delhi’s air pollution, the condition of government schools, strengthening public healthcare, and problems faced by passengers in Indian Railways. I have even raised issues like menstrual health, which people often hesitate to discuss, along with unemployment and inflation. You can check my four-year parliamentary record — I went there to create impact, not disruption."