Raghav Chadha

Born on 11 November 1988 and raised in New Delhi, Chadha received his school education from the capital city's Modern School, Barakhamba Road and graduated from University of Delhi (DU). He then pursued Chartered Accountancy from the Institute of Chartered Accounts of India, post which he went to the ‘London School of Economics’ for a certification course of EMBA. In his early career he worked with accountancy firms including Deloitte, Shyam Malpani, and Grant Thornton.

When AAP won the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly election with a majority, Chadha at the age of 26 was appointed as AAP's national treasurer. In April 2018, the then Union Minister of Home Affairs, Rajnath Singh, terminated his appointment as an advisor to Sisodia along with 9 other advisors.[9]

In 2019, he contested from the South Delhi Parliamentary Constituency in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He lost in the elections to the BJP candidate, Ramesh Bidhuri[10] and came second. Chadha got the maximum vote share among all the AAP contestants in the election.[11]

MP in Rajya Sabha

From left to right: Ashok Kumar Mittal, Harbhajan Singh, Raghav Chadha, Sandeep Pathak, Sanjeev Arora nominated by AAP to Rajya Sabha in 2022

As a leader of AAP he was appointed AAP Punjab co-in-charge for the Punjab Legislative Assembly election.[12][13] On 21st March 2022 it was announced that Delhi MLA Raghav Chadha along with four others were nominated by AAP for the post of Rajya Sabha members from Punjab for a six year term starting 2022.[14] No opposition candidate opposed their election.[15]

Raghav on 21st April, said that BJP settled Bangladeshis and Rohingyas in Delhi and uses them to cause riots.[16] He called the poor Bengali-speaking Muslims, migrated from West Bengal as Bangladeshis and Rohingyas which caused huge controversy and this was later debunked.[17]

• "Raghav Chadha's decade in politics: From volunteer at anti-corruption movement to youngest Rajya Sabha member". The Indian Express. 24 March 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2022.