The country’s famous YouTuber Dhruv Rathi has accused AAP’s rebel Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha of collecting fake followers
SNPNEWS.IN News (Gurmail Kamboj): After Punjab’s Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha and 6 other MPs joined the BJP, AAP has started a media campaign under which, in addition to protesting against the rebel MPs in every constituency and protesting by writing “treason” outside their houses, the leader of the rebel MPs, Raghav Chadha, is being unfollowed from social media.
The country’s famous YouTuber Dhruv Rathi has accused MP Raghav Chadha of buying fake followers after his Instagram followers dropped sharply after he rebelled from AAP.
Rathi said that after Chadha left AAP and joined BJP (April 24, 2026), there was a sharp drop in Instagram followers. Before joining BJP, he had around 14.6 million (1.46 crore) followers. Which had decreased to 13.5 to 13.7 million in 24 hours (about 9 lakh to 1 million (10 lakh) followers decreased). This is being linked to the “Gen Z Unfollow Campaign”, in which young voters/followers or AAP supporters unfollowed him.
After the sudden drop in followers, there was a sudden increase for some time, after which Dhruv Rathi posted a video (“Raghav Buying FAKE Followers?”) accusing Raghav Chadha of buying followers. Rathi called it the world’s biggest unfollow campaign and termed it extremely embarrassing for Chadha.
After Rathi’s video went viral, people are alleging that Raghav Chadha is buying fake followers to save the current number. At the time of writing this News, Chadha’s Instagram account has 12.2 million followers. A large number of them are accounts created in April 2026, without any photos or posts, after which cannot be refutes Rathi’s allegations.
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Raghav Chadha has not yet responded to Dhruv Rathi’s allegations.