Gujarat Polls: AAP candidates being determined by BJP, alleges Congress

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Congress social gathering on Saturday alleged that the AAP was working in collusion with the BJP for the upcoming Gujarat meeting polls and that the candidates of Arvind Kejriwal’s outfit had been being determined by the saffron social gathering.

Former Gujarat MLA Indranil Rajguru, who give up the Aam Aadmi Party to rejoin the Congress on Friday, stated he was asking for tickets for 15 AAP leaders who had been in a robust place to win however tickets had been being given to candidates “who could help the BJP in the polls.”

“I took a stand against this because I had joined AAP to defeat the BJP, not the Congress. I was told, ‘don’t be stubborn.’ The list comes from Kamalam (BJP office in Gujarat),” Rajguru claimed on Saturday at a press convention on the AICC headquarters right here.

Rajguru, who had joined the AAP after quitting the Congress in April this yr, returned to the grand previous social gathering, citing that it was the most suitable choice for defeating the BJP in Gujarat. Rajguru additionally alleged that on October 1 when each AAP chief ministers — Delhi’s Arvind’s Kejriwal and Punjab’s Bhagwant Mann — got here to Rajkot collectively in a chartered airplane, they introduced baggage of money with them.

He stated when he requested the place the money got here from, it was gestured to him that it got here by airplane. Rajguru, nevertheless, didn’t substantiate his allegation.

AICC in-charge of Gujarat Raghu Sharma alleged collusion between the BJP and AAP for the meeting polls and requested how it’s potential to “bring cash in a chartered plane” with out the data of the Centre.

Congress’ media division head Pawan Khera stated Rajguru grew to become disillusioned with AAP and rejoined the Congress inside months of leaving it.

“When we call them (AAP) the B-team of the BJP. Why do they get upset?” he stated. These are critical expenses and have to be answered by AAP and “their masters”, the BJP, Khera stated.

Rajguru had on Friday joined the Congress within the presence of AICC Gujarat in-charge Raghu Sharma, Gujarat Congress chief Jagdish Thakor, Congress legislature social gathering chief Sukhram Rathava and different senior leaders.

The Congress is searching for to oust the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the federal government within the dwelling state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the place the saffron social gathering has been in energy for greater than twenty years.

Elections to the 182-member Gujarat Assembly will probably be held in two phases — December 1 and 5 — and the votes will probably be counted on December 8.
READ | Gujarat: AAP to make election battle harder in seats received by lowest margin in 2017

NEW DELHI: The Congress social gathering on Saturday alleged that the AAP was working in collusion with the BJP for the upcoming Gujarat meeting polls and that the candidates of Arvind Kejriwal’s outfit had been being determined by the saffron social gathering.

Former Gujarat MLA Indranil Rajguru, who give up the Aam Aadmi Party to rejoin the Congress on Friday, stated he was asking for tickets for 15 AAP leaders who had been in a robust place to win however tickets had been being given to candidates “who could help the BJP in the polls.”

“I took a stand against this because I had joined AAP to defeat the BJP, not the Congress. I was told, ‘don’t be stubborn.’ The list comes from Kamalam (BJP office in Gujarat),” Rajguru claimed on Saturday at a press convention on the AICC headquarters right here.

Rajguru, who had joined the AAP after quitting the Congress in April this yr, returned to the grand previous social gathering, citing that it was the most suitable choice for defeating the BJP in Gujarat. Rajguru additionally alleged that on October 1 when each AAP chief ministers — Delhi’s Arvind’s Kejriwal and Punjab’s Bhagwant Mann — got here to Rajkot collectively in a chartered airplane, they introduced baggage of money with them.

He stated when he requested the place the money got here from, it was gestured to him that it got here by airplane. Rajguru, nevertheless, didn’t substantiate his allegation.

AICC in-charge of Gujarat Raghu Sharma alleged collusion between the BJP and AAP for the meeting polls and requested how it’s potential to “bring cash in a chartered plane” with out the data of the Centre.

Congress’ media division head Pawan Khera stated Rajguru grew to become disillusioned with AAP and rejoined the Congress inside months of leaving it.

“When we call them (AAP) the B-team of the BJP. Why do they get upset?” he stated. These are critical expenses and have to be answered by AAP and “their masters”, the BJP, Khera stated.

Rajguru had on Friday joined the Congress within the presence of AICC Gujarat in-charge Raghu Sharma, Gujarat Congress chief Jagdish Thakor, Congress legislature social gathering chief Sukhram Rathava and different senior leaders.

The Congress is searching for to oust the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the federal government within the dwelling state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the place the saffron social gathering has been in energy for greater than twenty years.

Elections to the 182-member Gujarat Assembly will probably be held in two phases — December 1 and 5 — and the votes will probably be counted on December 8.READ | Gujarat: AAP to make election battle harder in seats received by lowest margin in 2017