After Prime Minister Narendra Modi cautioned BJP workers against the Congress’ ”silent” canvassing and strategy in poll-bound Gujarat, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday wondered if he was campaigning for the state’s main opposition party.Addressing a rally at Vallabh Vidyanagar in the state, where assembly polls are due in the next few months, Modi stressed on the need to slightly modify the BJP’s poll strategy to counter, what he termed, a ”conspiracy”of the Congress.”Is the prime minister campaigning for the Congress in Gujarat?” Kejriwal, who is the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor, said in a tweet, reacting to Modi’s remarks.Modi also said that the Congress appears to have changed its strategy this time in Gujarat. ”I need to warn you because it appears to me that this time the Congress has adopted a new strategy. I have not probed, but that is what appears to me at first glance,” he said.
Modi said in the previous assembly elections, the Congress used to make a lot of noise and boast about ”finishing” the BJP, which has been in power in the state for more than two decades.”But we did not fall (get defeated) in 20 years, so they have done something new, which is why we need to remain alert,” said Modi, who was chief minister of Gujarat for 13 years.The prime minister said the Congress, once a dominant political force in Gujarat, is not saying anything openly, but working ”silently” by going to villages and adopting its old ”manipulative” tricks.
