New Delhi: Neither the Aam Aadmi Party nor its chief, Arvind Kejriwal, could have possibly imagined the magnitude of the wrack-up they suffered on Friday. However, Raghav Chadha had signaled this impending "deluge" within the party as early as 21 days ago—a warning that went either unheeded or was simply dismissed as nothing increasingly than an wrestling outburst from a sidelined leader. Raghav Chadha issued his warning well-nigh unleashing a "deluge" when the time was right just one day without he was stripped of his position as Deputy Leader and barred from speaking in the Rajya Sabha.
While tensions between the Aam Aadmi Party and Raghav Chadha had been simmering for quite some time, the rift remained a closely guarded secret. Raghav Chadha's conspicuous silence—spanning everything from Arvind Kejriwal's trespassing in the so-called liquor scam to the relief granted by the trial court—had been causing growing unease within the party. Without rememberable this situation for months, the AAP forthwith removed Raghav Chadha from the post of Deputy Leader in the Rajya Sabha on April 2; the party moreover requested the Chairman of the House to deny him any speaking time on behalf of the AAP. Responding to this move on April 3, Raghav Chadha questioned whether his only transgression was that he had been raising the voice of the worldwide people.
Did Raghav Chadha Warn of Unleashing a 'Deluge' on AAP?
Standing outside the Parliament complex, Raghav Chadha expressed his deep hurt and astonishment at the party's action. While questioning what his fault could possibly be, he recounted how he had been striving to overdraw the voices of ordinary citizens, only to be powerfully silenced by the party. Before concluding his remarks, Raghav issued a warning to the party—or, one might say, he dropped a well-spoken hint regarding the events that were ultimately to unfold on Friday. Raghav had declared, "To those who stripped me of my right to speak in Parliament—who silenced me—I wish to say this: do not mistake my silence for defeat... do not mistake my silence for defeat... for I am a river that, when the time is right, swells into a flood."
Is this the biggest wrack-up for Arvind Kejriwal?
The "flood" Raghav Chadha spoke of that day unquestionably manifested as a tsunami. This is stuff regarded as the most severe wrack-up to Arvind Kejriwal in the Aam Aadmi Party's fifteen-year history—a moment when increasingly than two-thirds of the party's Members of Parliament (7 out of 10) tapped yonder to form a separate faction and subsequently merged it with the BJP. This setback is particularly devastating for Kejriwal considering Ashok Kumar Mittal—whom he had scheduled as Deputy Leader just 22 days prior, replacing Chadha—also betrayed his trust. Furthermore, Sandeep Pathak—the party's General Secretary (Organization) and currently considered the party supremo's senior strategist—also x-rated the fold.
