New Delhi:
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday launched a broadside towards INDIA bloc ally and Delhi’s former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal over rising “air pollution and inflation” at his first public rally for meeting elections within the nationwide capital.
“Arvind Kejriwal had stated that he would clear Delhi, take away corruption, and switch the nationwide capital into Paris. What truly occurred – one can not transfer round resulting from air pollution and inflation is rising,” Mr Gandhi stated addressing his ‘Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan’ public assembly in Seelampur.
“Arvind Kejriwal had talked of eradicating corruption. Has he eliminated corruption? Pollution, corruption and inflation are on the rise in Delhi,” he stated.
The AAP chief reacted to the blistering assault by the Leader of Opposition within the Lok Sabha and stated whereas Mr Gandhi was preventing to avoid wasting the Congress, “my struggle is to avoid wasting the nation”.
“Today, Rahul Gandhi got here to Delhi. He abused me quite a bit. But I cannot touch upon his statements,” he wrote on X in Hindi.
Accusing the AAP of protecting mum on the difficulty of caste census, Mr Gandhi promised a caste survey in Delhi if the Congress shaped the federal government within the nationwide capital.
The former Congress president sought folks’s assist to make the get together victorious in Delhi, the place it didn’t win a single seat within the final two elections. He asserted that the get together would guarantee Delhi’s growth as prior to now below Sheila Dikshit’s authorities. “Neither (Arvind) Kejriwal nor the BJP can do what the Congress had completed,” Mr Gandhi stated.
The Congress has been highlighting the achievements of the 15-year rule below Sheila Dikshit.
In 2013, Arvind Kejriwal – a rookie politician again then – defeated the three-time chief minister in her constituency of New Delhi.
For this 12 months’s election, the Congress has fielded Sandeep Dikshit, the son of Sheila Dikshit, towards Mr Kejriwal.
The AAP and Congress have determined to go solo within the meeting elections, months after the events fought the Lok Sabha Elections in Delhi collectively. Their Lok Sabha partnership resulted in a debacle because the BJP received all of the seven seats.
In the run-up to the Delhi meeting elections, the events have engaged in bitter political struggle, focusing on one another over points starting from corruption and free welfare schemes, like free water, energy, training, well being and bus journey.
The Delhi Congress has even launched a 12-point “white paper” towards the AAP and BJP for mismanagement of air pollution, civic services and legislation and order within the nationwide capital.
In the 2020 meeting elections, the AAP received 62 of the 70 seats and BJP secured eight seats whereas Congress didn’t open its account.
Polling for the 70-member Delhi Assembly can be held on February 5 and votes counted on February 8.