Accusing the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government of "misleading" people by denying that it had a role in the furlough granted to Ajay Chautala, Delhi Congress president Subhash Chopra on Monday said the AAP is working as B team of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
"They (Delhi government) have been lying and misleading people that they had no role in granting furlough to Chautala. The jail manual says that the prison officials can grant the permission after due clearance form Delhi government's home department," he said.
Ajay Chautala, the father of JJP leader and Haryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala, lodged in the Tihar Jail after being convicted in a corruption case, was granted furlough for two weeks on Saturday.
"This is a well thought out strategy. The same AAP Government had earlier this year refused furlough to INLD supremo O P Chautala because the AAP had announced its support to INLD's rival Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) for the Jind (Assembly) bypoll," he added.
The development came on the day the BJP staked claim to form the government in Haryana with support of the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP), after it fell short of a majority in the Assembly elections.
Senior Congress leader Arvinder Singh Lovely said that Kejriwal and BJP joined hands secretly to form a BJP Government in Haryana. He also accused the AAP of misleading people. Lovely asked whether the parole given to Ajay Chuatala was applicable to common prisoners as well.
Chairman of the Campaign Committee Kirti Azad said that both AAP and the BJP were playing shadow boxing to mislead the people. "If Kejriwal had not given bail to Ajay Chautala, Congress would have formed a Government in Haryana," he added. Ajay, his father and 53 others, including two IAS officers, were convicted for corruption in a teachers' recruitment scam and other charges in 2013.