New Delhi, April 2 -- Rajya Sabha Secretariat on Thursday denied the request of Aam Aadmi Party MP Raghav Chadha to speak on the Jan Vishwas Amendment Bill, citing no time allocation by the party for him, according to sources.

This comes after the Aam Aadmi Party sent an official letter to the Rajya Sabha Secretariat informing that Ashok Kumar Mittal will be the new Deputy Leader of AAP in the Upper House, the party stated.

Mittal has replaced Raghav Chadha as the Deputy Leader of AAP in the House.

A Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab, Mittal was elected to the House in April 2022 and, since then, has been a part of several parliamentary committees, including the Committee on Defence, the Committee on Finance and in February 2026, he was made ...