New Delhi: With only three days to go for the Delhi polls, a shock wave ran through the saffron camp as its margdarshak, the RSS clearly indicated that the BJP was “not in a comfortable position” and a 'rejuvenated' AAP had “reclaimed its lost ground”.

Virtually dismissing the BJP Delhi leadership, the RSS revealed in its mouthpiece, Organiser, that Ms Kiran Bedi was projected as the BJP’s CM candidate only after the saffron high command “received adverse feedback from the field against the Delhi BJP”. If the BJP was trying to cover up the rift in the party over Ms Bedi’s projection, the RSS brought it out in the open.

The Organiser article stated there was “resentment among a section within the state unit after Bedi was named as CM nominee”. In the article Delhi Assembly Polls: Rejigging Strategies, the RSS mouthpiece refused to give the BJP an edge. Instead it wrote, “The fight between the Bharatiya Janata Party and its toughest competitor, Aam Aadmi Party, has heated up, taking it to the level of a cut-throat contest.”

Arguing that AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal had lost shine following his 49-day stint as Delhi chief minister, and that it had lost middle-class support, the RSS made it clear that the Delhi polls would not be “a cakewalk for the AAP.”