New Delhi:
Raghav Chadha may have dropped the bombshell on Friday, but tensions in the Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha team had been simmering for over a year, as Sandeep Pathak — one of the key architects of the party’s Punjab election triumph — was sidelined after the Delhi Assembly polls defeat, said Vikramjit Singh Sahney, one of the 7 AAP MPs who announced merger with the BJP. What added to the disgruntlement of the MPs was Chadha’s abrupt removal as the deputy leader of the party in the Upper House of Parliament, he added.
“Sandeep Pathak and Raghav Chadha were behind AAP’s Punjab success. This disgruntlement began when Sandeep Pathak was completely sidelined. He told me several times that he was very frustrated. He was not given any work — and this had been going on for a year, after AAP lost the Delhi polls. Raghav Chadha also said he was sidelined… he later withdrew from party activities… the dissatisfaction of Raghav Chadha and Sandeep Pathak led to this episode,” Sahney told NDTV in an interview.
“The rift widened after Raghav Chadha was removed as AAP’s deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha. Chadha and Pathak were dissatisfied. We thought we were brought by them to the Rajya Sabha, and they were the pillars of AAP…They started saying they were reduced to
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