The Congress party has raked up an unnecessary controversy over Indian cricket team’s orange jersey that it would wear during its upcoming World Cup clash with England.

The men in blue will be sporting an orange-coloured jersey for their match with hosts England that also has a blue jersey. The Indian team opted for the orange jersey as ICC's ruling prevents two teams from wearing the same coloured jersey in a televised tournament.

India that has won three of its five games will lock horns with England at Edgbaston on June 30.

The Congress party, however, gave a political angle to the move and raised objection over the orange-coloured jersey. The grand old party said that the Modi government was trying saffronise the country.

Speaking to news agency ANI, Maharashtra Congress MLA MA Khan said, “Yeh sarkaar har cheez ko alag nazar se dekhne aur dikhane ki koshish poore desh mein pichle panch saal se kar rahi hai. Yeh sarkaar bhagwakaran ki taraf iss desh ko le jane ka kaam kar rahi hai. (This government has been trying to see and show everything from different angle and colour for the past five years. This government is trying to lead this country towards saffronisation).”

The Samajwadi Party also echoed similar views and said that the BJP, which has saffron-coloured flag, was trying to paint the country saffron. “Modi wants to paint the country saffron,” SP leader Abu Azmi said.

The International Committee of Cricket (ICC), however, said that it gave the colour option to the BCCI and the latter chose what they felt went best with the colour combination.  The ICC further said the design for the new jersey has been taken from India’s old T20 jersey which had orange in it.

"The whole idea is to be different as England also wears a same shade of blue as India. The design is taken from India’s old T20 jersey which had orange in it," the ICC said.