Sudhanshu Mittal, the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) co-convenor for the poll campaign in the northeast, has said that reports of a rift between him and party general secretary Arun Jaitley were a "media creation".

The businessman-turned-politician also claimed he was "instrumental" in forging a pre-poll tie between the BJP and the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) in Assam.