New Delhi: If you tell any committed Congressman that the fight in Delhi is between the ruling AAP and the BJP, he will be quick to dismiss the belief as a false picture painted by a section of ‘national media’ to benefit the saffron party. They would want to know how a party (BJP) which has “no credible chief minister’s face to project” and “no committed organisation in the national capital” because of being out of power since 1998, can do better than them (Congress). However, if you tell them that BJP has been actually doing better than them since the last three Delhi Assembly and Lok Sabha elections, the answer is that “this time things are different”. Whether delusional or deliberate political strategy, Congress has now decided to project itself as a main challenger to the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP. Or seen from a different perspective, finally decided to take the gloves off and ready to hurl some heavy punches at its key INDIA ally with whom it was contesting Lok Sabha elections in alliance only six months ago. More than winning the elections, Congress is now fighting to regain lost grounds and realised that it cannot do so by being soft on AAP.

On Thursday, Congress Chief Spokesperson Pawan Khera and DPCC Chief Devendra Yadav played an audio clip of a telephonic conversation in a press conference allegedly involving AAP’s Narela MLA Sharad Chauhan discussing monetary gains in the Delhi Excise Scam. “The audio exposes........

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