NEW DELHI: It may have spent the past year slamming the Congress and pitching itself as a polar opposite, but in government now, the Aam Aadmi Party does not appear averse to pinching one of the Grand Old Party’s signature ideas.AAP plans to set up an advisory body along the lines of the National Advisory Council ( NAC ) that conceived, advocated and even drafted some of the landmark legislations that have defined the Congress-led UPA ’s regime, making it an unusual act of reciprocity towards the Congress whose vice president Rahul Gandhi , in his first comments after the assembly elections results, promised to learn from AAP ’s success.The proposed advisory body, besides serving as the APP government’s umbilical link to the party, will primarily help it make good the 18 promises made to the electorate while crucially grafting on its first ever administration people with some administrative experience.AAP ideologue Yogendra Yadav confirmed the setting up of such a body, which he said will advise Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his cabinet ministers on policy formulation and, primarily, serve the purpose of ensuring that the AAP-led minority government sticks to its common minimum programme.The Sonia Gandhi-headed NAC too provides inputs on policy formulation and has been the moving force behind its crucial initiatives such as the rights to information, food and education. So powerful has been the role of the NAC that it has been referred to as the shadow cabinet.“This body will work with Arvind and his ministers in an advisory capacity and will push the government to fulfill the promises made in the party manifesto,” Yadav told ET.The AAP’s advisory body will be formally announced once its minority government in Delhi has proved its majority on the floor of the Delhi legislative assembly on January 2. Yadav was tight-lipped about the names of the members, only saying that Kejriwal was directly in charge of constituting this body. The Delhi chief minister was unavailable for comment.Although Yadav, a political anlayst who is the intellectual force behind party’s impressive debut in the Delhi, conceded that there were similarities between the NAC and the AAP’s own advisory body, he said there were crucial differences.“It is much less than the NAC in the sense that it will not draw famous personalities from different walks of life as members. But, at the same time, AAP’s advisory body is much more than the NAC as its members will be more hands-on and directly in touch with the needs of those at the grass roots level,” he said, adding that the advisory body’s members will be chosen from within the party.The body, whose remit will be largely recommendatory, will nevertheless help the government make up for its administrative inexperience and will also include members with