Raghav Chadha is an Indian politician. He attended London School of Economics to become a Chartered Accountant. Raghav has worked as a CA in several multinational companies such as Deloitte and Grant Thornton. He gave up his career as a Chartered Accountant and moved back to India to join politics.
Raghav Chadha is an Indian politician. He was born on 11 November 1988 in Delhi. His sun sign is Scorpio. He completed his schooling from Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi. He attended Sri Venkateshwara College, Delhi, London School of Economics, London, and Indian Institute of Chartered Accountants, Delhi.
His father’s name is Sunil Chadha and his mother’s name is Alka Chadha.
Raghav Chadha is married to Parineeti Chopra. She is a Bollywood actress.
Raghav’s favourites
His hobbies include, listening to music, playing cricket and badminton, travelling, and reading books.
His favourite cricketer is Brian Lara.
He loves to watch cricket matches.
He owns a Maruti Suzuki Dzire car.
Interesting facts about Raghav
Raghav Chadha is an Indian politician and is associated with Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He is frequently seen on prime-time TV debates. He is also considered the youngest spokesperson of Aam Aadmi Party.
Raghav used to actively participate in his school activities.
After spending one year at Sri Venkateswara College, Raghav dropped out and took an admission in London School of Economics to become a Chartered Accountant.
Raghav has worked as a CA in several multinational companies such as Deloitte and Grant Thornton. When the ‘India Against Corruption (IAC)’ began he was busy setting up his firm in London.
Joining politics
He gave up his career as a Chartered Accountant and moved back to India to join politics.
In 2012, Arvind Kejriwal, the present Chief Minister of Delhi, wanted Raghav to be involved in the drafting of the ‘Jan Lokpal Bill’. After this, Raghav joined the newly formed party AAP.
On 4 September 2016, he attended the canonization of Mother Teresa by Pope Francis in St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.
In 2018, Raghav shot for the Netflix film ‘Rajma Chawal’.
In 2019, he was given the managing responsibility of South Delhi for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Contesting in elections
In 2019, Raghav contested in the Lok Sabha elections from South Delhi parliamentary constituency but lost to BJP candidate Ramesh Bidhuri.
In February 2020, he contested in the Delhi Assembly elections from Rajinder Nagar constituency and won against BJP's RP Singh.
On 15 July 2021, Raghav was elected as the Vice Chairman of Delhi Jal Board.
On behalf of Aam Aadmi Party, he was appointed co-in charge of AAP Punjab for Punjab Assembly elections.
Becoming a Rajya Sabha member
On 21 March 2022, it was announced that Delhi MLA Raghav Chadha along with four others were nominated for the post of Rajya Sabha members from Punjab for a six-year term.
On 25 March 2022, Aam Aadmi Party's youngest leader Raghav Chadha was elected as Rajya Sabha member.
On 27 March 2022, he was the showstopper for designer Pawan Sachdeva at the Lakme Fashion Show in New Delhi. He walked the ramp with actor Aparshakti Khurana.
Raghav’s marriage
Raghav got engaged with Parineeti Chopra on 13 May 2023.
Raghav and Parineeti got married on 24 September 2023.
The couple met each other on the sets of a film that Parineeti was shooting for. After that, they started dating each other and their friendship bloomed into love.
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