Pointing at Babbar's 'samajwadi' background, BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said, "By appointing Raj Babbar and Imran Masood to top party posts in Uttar Pradesh, Congress has given a clear message that it would continue to work as the 'B' team of the Samajwadi Party."
He was referring to actor-turned-politician Babbar contesting Lok Sabha election from Lucknow on a SP ticket in 2004 against former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Congress today appointed Babbar the president of the party's Uttar Pradesh unit while Masood was named as one of the four senior vice-presidents under him.
Uttar Pradesh is slated to go to Assembly elections in 2017.
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