It renews its Gujarat campaign amid a high-voltage battle already on between the two major players and former chief minister Shankersinh Vaghela quitting the Congress and launching a new party to stake claim as the third.
AAP, like Mr Vaghela, is expected to eat into the votes of the Congress, which dismissed the threat today alleging that Mr Kejriwal too is in Gujarat as the “B team” of the BJP. “During elections such small groups emerge as the BJP’s B team, but it won’t impact us. People will not be misled by such third parties,” said the Congress spokesman Manish Doshi.
Today’s AAP road show was flagged off by Delhi minister Gopal Rai, who is the party’s Gujarat in charge. AAP leaders stopped at various places, including Naroda Patiya, where almost 100 people were killed by rioters in the worst massacre of the 2002 Gujarat riots.
“People are fed up with corrupt practices of both the BJP and the Congress,” said Mr Rai. He said the party would decide on how many assembly seats to contest in Gujarat after “feedback from the ground.”
