‘My two minutes’: Raghav Chadha drops another video of his speeches in Rajya Sabha amid feud with AAP

New Delhi: Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha on Friday dropped a fresh video compilation of his interventions in the Parliament amid his tussle with his party Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The party has written to the Rajya Sabha Secretariat to remove Chadha from the position of Deputy Leader of the party in the Rajya Sabha. They appointed MP Ashok Mittal in his place.

Video compiles Raghav Chadha’s speeches

The length of Chadha’s latest video is 2 minutes 40 seconds and its headline is ‘My Two Minutes’. However, there is no caption text, only an emoji of the Indian national flag. Chadha said in the video, “I am not at all ashamed to say that we in India today pay taxes like England to get services like Somalia,” with footage of him speaking in the Rajya Sabha.

His speech on the Right to Recall, and parts of his other speeches have been compiled in the video. The speeches covered the topics he raised in the Rajya Sabha, including “income not increasing at the level at which India’s inflation is increasing”, “duopoly” in India’s aviation sector, and the taxation systems in place.

The clip also has moments of him raising issues linked with Punjab where the AAP is the ruling party. Notably, he is an MP from Punjab and he has been criticised by CM Bhagwant Mann for allegedly not raising relevant issues about the state. In the video, there is moment of him speaking about Punjab’s water-related issues among other things. The compilation also has an excerpt of his speech in which he demanded the Bharat Ratna for freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.

AAP attacks Raghav Chadha

AAP’s Saurabh Bharadwaj on Friday launched an all-out attack on Raghav Chadha. He questioned the Rajya Sabha MP’s silence on key issues in Parliament, and advised him to raise ‘real’ matters in the limited speaking time allotted to leaders of smaller parties. Bharadwaj directly addressed Chadha in a video in which he said, “Raghav bhai, I just watched your video. We are all soldiers of Arvind Kejriwal ji. We learned only one thing — the one who gets scared is as good as dead. Our job was to raise people’s issues and look the government in the eye while questioning it.”