Gloves between Raghav Chadha and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) came off this morning with AAP throwing “joh dar gaya samjho mar gaya” counter at the Rajya Sabha MP and accusing him of resorting to soft public relations in the Parliament.Moments after Chadha released a video saying “AAP could silence but not defeat him,” the party fielded its senior leader Saurabh Bhardwaj for the offensive against Chadha.In a video, Bhardwaj accused Chadha of hiding when AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, as sitting CM, was arrested in the Delhi liquor scam.Also read: Raghav Chadha to AAP: ‘Is it a crime to raise people’s issues in Parliament’Bhardwaj also said this was the time to “look the BJP in the eye and ask questions and not soft pedal on issues.””Your soft issues do not bother the BJP. The BJP has been supporting you on social media since yesterday,” Saurabh Bhardwaj, AAP’s Delhi in-charge said a day after the party removed Chadha as Rajya Sabha deputy leader and asked the RS secretariat not to allot him party time to speak.Chadha, this morning in a video, asked the AAP why it wanted to silence him about issues of the people he had been raising in the House.However, Bhardwaj said that Chadha was “too afraid to look BJP in the eye or question the PM or the government.””We all are soldiers of Kejriwal. We have learnt just one thing — joh dar gaya samjho mar gaya. We have to raise people’s issues looking the government in the eye. Across social media platforms we see the government muzzling the voices of people who question it, on FB, YouTube. It doesn’t matter to the government that someone should do soft PR in Parliament,” Bhardwaj said.He told Chadha that parties have limited time in the Parliament and therefore it is more important to raise bigger issues than samosas.”Across India we see how ahead of elections genuine electors are being disenfranchised and the government is winning elections by making fraudulent votes. The same thing happened in Bengal. The entire Opposition wanted to bring a motion to impeach the Chief Election Commissioner. You refused to sign it. You do not walk out with the Opposition on commonly articulated issues. For long you have not raised a single issue in the Parliament where you have questioned the PM or BJP. How will this politics of fear work?” asked the AAP leader, signalling an irreparable chasm between a one-time Kejriwal confidant Chadha and the party.Bhardwaj added that Chadha did not even raise issues of Punjab which he represents in Rajya Sabha.”You are afraid to raise those issues also. In Gujarat, 160 AAP workers have been booked in fake cases. You were silent on that. So many of our leaders were jailed. Arvind Kejriwal as the CM was arrested by the government. You were not in the country even then. You hid somewhere,” said Bhardwaj asking Chadha to introspect.The AAP’s samosa jibe was targetted at Chadha’s consistent Rajya Sabha campaign for affordable food at airports.The AAP argues that Chadha is building his own image using the Parliament forum while adopting a stand variant to the party’s on issues against the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Chadha conversely says he is only raising people’s issues which should not brother the AAP. The episode comes days after AAP’s senior leader Sanjay Singh dismissed speculation that Chadha, former AAP co in-charge of Punjab, was joining the BJP on 2027 Punjab poll eve.