Raghav Chadha, the Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab, has deleted a large number of his old posts on X that were critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP, according to publicly made allegations by AAP Delhi unit chief Saurabh Bharadwaj on April 5, 2026. The deletions, confirmed by multiple Indian media outlets including Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Print, and India.com after independent investigation, have added a significant new dimension to the already serious internal rift that saw Chadha removed as AAP’s Deputy Leader in the Rajya Sabha just days earlier.
Chadha has not publicly commented on the deletions.
What Saurabh Bharadwaj Said
AAP Delhi unit chief Saurabh Bharadwaj made the allegation publicly, stating that searches for keywords like BJP or Modi on Chadha’s X timeline now return almost no critical posts. According to Bharadwaj, only two remaining posts mentioning Modi are positive or praising in nature. The rest, which once formed part of the standard repertoire of sharp AAP criticism of the BJP government that Chadha delivered both on X and in Parliament, appear to have been removed.
Bharadwaj’s decision to make this allegation publicly, as the AAP Delhi chief rather than as a private party member, gives it significant institutional weight. This is not a disgruntled backbencher making an accusation. It is the head of AAP’s Delhi unit putting on record that his own party’s Rajya Sabha MP appears to have systematically cleaned his social media history of criticism of the party’s primary political opponent.
What the Media Investigation Found
Multiple Indian media outlets independently verified the allegation after Bharadwaj raised it. Searches on Chadha’s X timeline for keywords that would previously have returned dozens or hundreds of critical posts about Modi and the BJP now show near-empty results. The pattern of deletion is described as consistent with a mass or bulk deletion of old posts rather than selective individual removals, with reports suggesting thousands of old tweets were deleted in a recent cleanup of his timeline.
The specific nature of what has been deleted, posts critical of Modi and the BJP, while retaining or adding posts that are positive about the same figures, is what makes the pattern significant beyond the act of social media housekeeping itself. Deleting old posts is not unusual among politicians seeking to manage their public record. Deleting specifically the adversarial content while retaining or replacing it with friendly content toward the opposition is a different and more pointed act.
The AAP Internal Rift Context
The timing of this discovery and its public allegation by Bharadwaj is inseparable from the sequence of events that preceded it. Chadha was removed as AAP’s Deputy Leader in the Rajya Sabha, with sources close to the party describing it as a bid to silence him. The AAP Secretariat was reportedly requested to disallow Chadha floor time in Parliament. Chadha responded with a silenced not defeated video message on X, posting a highlights reel of his Parliamentary interventions without any reference to Kejriwal or AAP.
Sources close to Chadha had attributed his removal to his absence from key party activities and his silence on the clean chit given to Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in the liquor policy case. The party’s position appeared to be that Chadha’s loyalty was in question. The discovery of mass deletions of anti-Modi and anti-BJP content from his X timeline, made public by AAP’s own Delhi chief within days of his removal, transforms that internal loyalty question into something considerably more public and considerably more damaging.
What It Means Politically
The political implications of what Bharadwaj has alleged are significant on multiple levels.
For Chadha, the allegation raises questions about whether his removal from the Deputy Leader position preceded a decision to distance himself from AAP’s political positioning, or whether the social media cleanup was itself a trigger for or evidence of the party’s decision to act against him. The direction of causality matters for how the story reads.
For AAP, the public airing of this allegation by its own Delhi chief reflects an extraordinary moment of internal dysfunction in a party that built its identity around aggressive opposition to BJP and Modi. The image of its own Rajya Sabha MP appearing to quietly sanitise his anti-government record while simultaneously positioning himself as a victim of internal party silencing is a complicated one to manage.
For the BJP and opposition, the story provides ammunition on multiple fronts simultaneously: that AAP’s internal discipline has collapsed, that its MPs are preparing to switch sides or at minimum soften their political positions, and that the party which came to power on a platform of radical transparency is experiencing its own authenticity crisis.
Chadha’s silence on the deletions is notable. A politician who was willing to post a defiant silenced not defeated video hours after his removal from party leadership has chosen not to address what multiple media outlets have confirmed. In the current political environment that silence is itself a statement, though what exactly it is saying remains for Chadha to eventually clarify.
This article is based on reporting from Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Print, Tribune India, and India.com as of April 5 to 6, 2026, and on the public allegations made by AAP Delhi unit chief Saurabh Bharadwaj. Raghav Chadha has not publicly commented on the deletions at time of publication. This article is for informational purposes only.