Raghav Chadha has been appointed as leader of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Rajya Sabha, in absence of Sanjay Singh. The AAP MP is presently behind bars in the Delhi liquor coverage case. In a letter to the Rajya Sabha Chairman, the AAP occasion management has mentioned that in the absence of Sanjay Singh, who has “health issues”, Raghav Chadha will henceforth be the occasion’s leader in the higher home.
Sources in the Rajya Sabha secretariat confirmed {that a} letter has been obtained from the AAP relating to appointing Chadha as its ground leader. Chadha is one of the youngest members of Rajya Sabha.
The Rajya Sabha had on December 4 adopted by a voice vote the movement moved by BJP member GVL Narasimha Rao to finish the suspension of Chadha, a member of the higher home from Punjab. The MP was held responsible by the Privileges Committee of presenting “misleading” info to the media, and was allowed to attend the House proceedings after his suspension was withdrawn.
Chadha was below suspension since August 11 after some MPs, a majority of them from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), accused him of including their names to a movement with out their consent. The movement sought structure of a choose committee to look at the contentious Delhi Services Bill.
Sanjay Singh is in judicial custody until December 21. The AAP MP had been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in its cash laundering probe into the Delhi excise coverage case. Singh was arrested by the central probe company on October 4. He is presently in judicial custody in Delhi’s Tihar jail.
