Gujarat Assembly election | Congress calls AAP 'BJP's B-team', says contest in Gujarat is between BJP and itself

“India Against Corruption was a front organisation of the RSS and the AAP emerged from that,” Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said

The Congress on November 1 termed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) the “B-team of the BJP” and asserted that the fight is between the BJP and it in the Gujarat assembly polls.

Addressing a press conference in Hyderabad, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) emerged from an RSS-backed movement in 2012.

Also read: Do Gujarati voters support populist politics?

“India Against Corruption was a front organisation of the RSS and the AAP emerged from that,” he alleged.

The manner in which AAP leaders have been campaigning, it has become absolutely clear through the issues they have been raising and the way they have been raising them that there is no difference from the BJP, Mr. Ramesh alleged.

The BJP and the AAP only indulge in shadow boxing, he claimed.

“It is true that through the Punjab Government and the Delhi Government, a lot of advertisements are being made [in Gujarat], there is a bubble of AAP created in the media. But on the ground level if you look in terms of workers and candidates, the fight in Gujarat is between the BJP and the Congress,” Mr. Ramesh said.