After Rajya Sabha chairman CP Radhakrishnan formally accepted the merger of defected AAP members with the BJP, one of the rebels, Raghav Chadha said AAP had become a toxic workplace where people were silenced and stopped from working.“One or two persons can be wrong, but not everyone who left the party,” Chadha said defending his decision to move on even as he continues to face backlash for the move and has lost a considerable chunk of his social media following.AAP Delhi chief Saurabh Bharadwaj hit back saying Chadha had received a backlash because instead of leaving respectfully he conspired with the BJP to harm the party which gave him everything.Chadha in a video statement today said he abandoned a successful career as a practising chartered accountant to enter politics and became a founding member of AAP, giving 15 years of his prime youth to the party. “I didn’t join politics to make a career…I gave to AAP my blood, sweat and tears.”Chadha added that he had three three choices — quit politics, stay on in AAP and try to fix things, which did not work out or take one’s energy and experience to another platform for the larger purpose of positive politics.“That’s why I, not alone, but along with six other MPs, decided to break the relationship with this political party…One person can be wrong. Two people can be wrong. But seven people cannot all be wrong,” he said, adding taht many educated people who had once joined the party later left it. “Can all of them be wrong?”Bharadwaj said even if an employee leaves a company, he serves a three-month notice period so that whatever he has learnt from that company can be transitioned.“They do not conspire to ruin the company’s image…Raghav Chadha got married because of the recognition received through the AAP.


