Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha has accused his former party, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), of political vendetta after his name was marked as “permanently shifted” in Punjab’s draft electoral roll prepared under the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR).Chadha, who joined the BJP in April this year, was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Punjab as an AAP nominee in 2022. He said his voter ID is registered in Mohali, yet his name has been classified as “shifted” in the draft roll.
“The AAP government in Punjab has now taken its politics of revenge to the Draft Electoral Rolls,” Chadha said on X. “This does not seem like a mere clerical mistake. This is a clear case of political vendetta.”
“Ever since I left the corrupt Aam Aadmi Party, its leadership has been burning with anger. It has unleashed the Punjab Police and the Punjab Government’s administrative machinery against those of us who refused to remain silent. Other MPs who left AAP and joined the BJP have also been targeted by Punjab Govt. This wrongful classification is only the latest act in that political vendetta,” he said.
Chadha’s name in the list of electors is categorised as “absent, shifted, deceased and duplicate” (ASDD). The Punjab draft electoral roll was published on August 13, with his entry marked “permanently shifted”. Chadha is among around 2.06 million names — or 9.7 per cent of Punjab’s pre-SIR electorate — who were deleted from the draft roll.
