Ahead of Gujarat Assembly polls, Cong brings back “B-team of BJP” debate against Owaisi, Kejriwal
New Delhi: The Indian National Congress has once again triggered a debate against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) ahead of the Gujarat Assembly polls, where both AAP and AIMIM are expected to actively contest for seats.
Speaking at a media conference on Friday, the Gujarat in-charge of Congress Raghu Sharma said “The AAP was assigned the same task in Goa and Uttarakhand. The BJP ploy worked in these states but we have effectively explained to the people of Gujarat the purpose of the AAP’s intervention in a state where it has no organisational structure. Both the AAP and the AIMIM are B-teams of the BJP unleashed to harm the Congress.”
The charges against the AAP and AIMIM for having a secret understanding to topple Congress, are being labeled by the grand old party for some years now. The AAP along with the TMC, however, had actually hampered the chances of Congress during the Goa election by collectively polling 11 percent of votes in the state where Congress lagged behind BJP with a margin of six percent votes in the polling.
In Uttarakhand, Kejriwal sliced away 3.3 percent of votes in a cut-throat competition between the main rivals. The difference between the BJP and Congress votes in the hill state was 6 percent.
A controversy erupted in Gujarat as well a couple of days ago when reports of secret meetings between AIMIM state Chief Sabir Kabliwala and the BJP’s Ahmedabad mayor, Kirit Parmar, surfaced.
“There is false propaganda about the Congress being disinterested and inactive. The BJP’s Gaurav Yatra was a disaster. We will take out Yatras from October 31 and that will establish which party has the people’s support” Sharma told reporters.
Asserting that both Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will campaign after the announcement of the election schedule, Sharma said: “The Gujarat schedule was not announced by the Election Commission only because the BJP wanted more time to launch programs to fool the people. The Prime Minister is spending the maximum time in Gujarat, and the home minister is (also) there. They know the condition is bad. We will form the government with 125 seats.” He added.
The EC last week declared the Himachal Pradesh election schedule but did not announce the Gujarat dates.
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Jawan found dead in CRPF camp in J-K's Shopian
Srinagar (PTI): A CRPF jawan died inside a camp in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday.
Head constable Surinder Singh, who hails form Hyderabad, fell unconscious late Tuesday night at the Zainapora Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Shopian, the officials said.
Singh was shifted to Zainapora hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.
Police has taken cognizance of the incident and started proceeding to ascertain cause of Singh's death.
