Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha, who was removed as the party’s Deputy Leader in the Upper House on Thursday, has warned the AAP leadership that they should not take his silence as an indication that he has been defeated in a political battle.”When the time comes, I will reveal everything,” he said in a video message.Chadha, who for the first two years of AAP rule in Punjab, was calling the shots and was considered a parallel power center, was replaced by AAP’s other MP from Punjab, Ashok Kumar Mittal, as the party’s Deputy Leader. In a video message, Chadha has questioned why AAP asked the Rajya Sabha secretariat not to allow him to speak in Parliament.”I always raised issues that concerned the common man and were not being raised in Parliament. Is it a sin to raise these issues? Why would Aam Aadmi Party do this? I was talking about expensive food being sold at airports, gig workers, adulterated food, hidden charges by banks. Then why does the AAP not want me to speak?” he asked, warning that he was like a river that leads to floods when the right time comes.This signals the breaking of ties between Chadha and AAP, a party he joined right from the time of its inception. There is discomfort within the AAP ranks about his perceived proximity to the BJP and anxiety that he could be used in Punjab by the Centre’s ruling party in the Punjab elections, scheduled within a few months. He was largely attributed with delivering success to AAP in the 2022 Punjab elections, when the party won 92 of the 117 seats.His writ in the government ran large till the end of 2023.However, his sudden absence from the political scene in the run-up to the Delhi polls and during party supremo Arvind Kejriwal’s days of arrest in the Delhi liquor scam (Kejriwal had since then been discharged in the case), did not go down well with the party leadership.Chadha had then claimed he was in the UK to seek treatment for an eye ailment. Though he returned to India after a few months, he had apparently lost the trust of the party leadership and was largely on his own.The man who once resided in the plush House No 50 of Sector 2 here in Chandigarh, where serpentine queues of police and civil officers, businessmen, ministers, MLAs, and party leaders could be seen waiting endlessly to meet him, was also forced to vacate the house last year.