AAP removed Chadha , now Ashok Mittal will lead in Rajyasabha

The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has removed Raghav Chadha as the party’s deputy leader in Rajya Sabha and appointed its Punjab MP Ashok Mittal as the replacement. The AAP has also informed the Rajya Sabha Secretariat that Raghav Chadha should not be allotted time to speak in parliament.

Sources close to Raghav Chadha say that the party wanted to silence him in parliament. “The party informed parliament to not allot him time to speak and to further ensure that he cannot assign time to himself to speak he was removed as deputy leader,” sources said.

Mittal, who replaces Chadha as AAP’s deputy leader in the Upper House of Parliament, is the chancellor of Lovely Professional University. AAP MP Sanjay Singh is the party’s leader in the House. AAP now has 10 members in the Rajya Sabha: seven from Punjab and three from Delhi. The party is the fourth-largest in the House after the BJP, Congress, and the Trinamool Congress.(updated on 2nd April 2026)