{"id":9512,"date":"2026-04-06T08:28:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9512"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:28:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:28:50","slug":"130055352-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=9512","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Never outshine the master&#8217;: Raghav Chadha&#8217;s cryptic Instagram post amid rift with AAP leadership | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130055529,imgsize-81214,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/untitled-design.jpg\" alt=\"'Never outshine the master': Raghav Chadha's cryptic Instagram post amid rift with AAP leadership\" title=\"Raghav Chadha (Photos posted on Instagram)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Raghav Chadha (Photos posted on Instagram)\">Raghav Chadha (Photos posted on Instagram)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/aam-aadmi-party\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Aam Aadmi Party<\/a> (AAP) MP <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/raghav-chadha\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Raghav Chadha<\/a> on Monday shared a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWxxHCPiMe-\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=3272346e-3298-4a5b-8cb9-794999d83351&amp;img_index=5\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">cryptic Instagram post<\/a> amid his ongoing rift with the party leadership.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>Chadha&#8217;s post showed him reading the book &#8220;The 48 Laws of Power&#8221; by Robert Greene. He also shared images of the book cover and its first chapter.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>&#8220;Somebody gifted me a book this week. Funny how timing works. The timing is hard to ignore. I turned to chapter 1 \u2013 \u2018Never outshine the master\u2019. Some books arrive exactly when they are meant to,&#8221; he captioned the post.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Last week, the AAP removed Chadha, one of its most known and visible faces, as its deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha. He is the youngest member in the House.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>The party also urged the Rajya Sabha secretariat not to give him time to speak on its behalf.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>The 37-year-old politician, who is married to actor Parineeti Chopra, has been sharing videos targeting the AAP since being removed from his Rajya Sabha post. In turn, party leaders have accused him of engaging in &#8220;soft PR&#8221; and &#8220;shying away&#8221; from speaking against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>Senior AAP leaders have alleged that Chadha had been &#8220;reluctant&#8221; to raise issues aligned with the party\u2019s stand. They pointed to his refusal to sign the notice seeking the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and his failure to join opposition walkouts on key issues in the House.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann, Rajya Sabha leader Sanjay Singh, former Delhi chief minister Atishi, and Delhi unit chief Saurabh Bharadwaj were among those who accused him of &#8220;deviating&#8221; from the party line.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>Chadha&#8217;s silence during the imprisonment of AAP supremo and then-Delhi CM <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/arvind-kejriwal\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Arvind Kejriwal<\/a> in the liquor scam case had raised eyebrows, though he had repeatedly rubbished rumours of a fallout.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/>He is the second AAP MP to have fallen out with the party leadership in recent years, after Swati Maliwal, also a Rajya Sabha MP. Maliwal was allegedly assaulted at Kejriwal&#8217;s residence by the AAP chief&#8217;s close aide Bibhav Kumar in May 2024.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"31\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/never-outshine-the-master-raghav-chadhas-cryptic-instagram-post-amid-rift-with-aap-leadership\/articleshow\/130055352.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raghav Chadha (Photos posted on Instagram) NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3558,15670,724,723,719,720,721,23844,4430,12647,722],"class_list":["post-9512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aam-aadmi-party","tag-arvind-kejriwal","tag-breaking-news","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-party-leadership-rift","tag-raghav-chadha","tag-rajya-sabha","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}