India, April 4 -- The Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) internal rift spilt out into the open on Friday after MP Raghav Chadha reacted to his removal on Thursday as the party's deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha, drawing a sharp counterattack from senior colleagues.

In his first major reaction, Chadha shared a video message saying "Silenced, not defeated". Hitting back, AAP leaders accused him of indulging in soft PR and used a famous dialogue from the Hindi film Sholay and said, Jo dar gaya samjho mar gaya (Whoever gets scared is considered dead)."

Asserting that he is a 'Arvind Kejriwal ka sipahi (soldiers)', AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj accused Chadha of raising matters like prices of samosas at airports.

The Rajya Sabha MP, however,  said ...