New Delhi:
Two days after being snubbed by his party for praising the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today said AAP is just a "platform" unlike structure-based Congress and suggested that there could be "anarchy" because of it.
"AAP is not a party, it is a platform... Basically, AAP has been an agitation, not a party. Congress party is a party of ideology, governance, office-bearers and structure," he told reporters in New Delhi.
"If you do not have a party, you will have anarchy in our country. You cannot have chaos and anarchy," the Congress leader added.
Drawing a comparison between the Congress and AAP, he said the overall ideology of the 128-year-old party was cohesive ideology.
On Thursday, the Congress had disowned his remarks that the AAP has been raising "legitimate" issues and asked the political class not to make fun of it.
Asked today about the role of AAP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Mr Ramesh said it was too early to comment about its national impact.
"Delhi, certainly, they have planted their flag and they are getting a lot of media space. But, what extent they are going to have national impact is too early to say," Mr Ramesh stated.
When pointed out that he had been criticised by his party for praising AAP, Mr Ramesh merely said, "I was also told."