Delhi Polls: Rahul Gandhi’s First Marketing campaign Speech Focuses Extra On RSS-BJP, Much less On AAP – News18
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With Delhi Congress anticipating extra of an assault on the AAP, lacking from Rahul Gandhi’s speech had been references to the ‘Sheesh Mahal’ row and the CAG report on the now-scrapped liquor coverage
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi termed his marketing campaign for the upcoming Delhi meeting elections as ‘Jai Bhim, Samvidhan Bachao’ rally. (Picture: @INCIndia/X)
Within the almost 25 minutes that senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi spoke on Monday at his first rally for the upcoming Delhi meeting elections, he talked about AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal 4 instances. However, lacking in his speech had been references to the ‘Sheesh Mahal’ row and the CAG report on the now-scrapped liquor coverage.
As he launched his ballot marketing campaign, his assault was extra centered on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the RSS. He accused the BJP-led central authorities of compromising the Structure and likewise blamed it for working a monopoly of the corporates.
Nothing new right here, however simply that, for the Delhi elections, when many of the Congress leaders had been sharing stage with him, they had been, maybe, hoping extra of an assault in opposition to the AAP. Current amongst different social gathering leaders had been additionally those that are contesting the polls, together with Sandeep Dikshit, who’s up in opposition to Kejriwal.
Delhi Congress leaders had been caught abruptly, having ready themselves for an aggressive battle in opposition to Kejriwal and reclaim what was as soon as a powerful floor for them. They had been assured by the highest management that Gandhi and the social gathering will come on sturdy.
Calling his first rally the ‘Jai Bhim, Samvidhan Bachao’ rally, Gandhi’s indication was clear – that his speech will focus extra on the BJP and RSS and little on Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP). His speech got here on a day when the excessive courtroom rapped the Delhi authorities for “dragging its ft” over calling an meeting session to desk the CAG report on the excise coverage.
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In a dialog with News18, Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri raised questions on what the AAP authorities has to cover, seeing as they weren’t permitting an meeting session to be referred to as.
Gandhi’s silence on the ‘Sheesh Mahal’ controversy and the CAG experiences left his social gathering upset. All of the extra as a result of it was first a grievance by the Congress that shone a lightweight on the alleged liquor coverage rip-off.
Actually, the BJP is hopeful that the Congress will gear up as a result of that may assist them politically and divide the “anti-BJP camp” once more. “The congress should perceive that if it fails to combat the AAP, it would meet the identical destiny because it did in Maharashtra and plenty of different states,” Puri stated.
The Gandhis, nonetheless, consider that protecting the BJP away is extra necessary even when it implies that Kejriwal will get one other time period in Delhi at the price of the Congress. It was clear from Rahul’s Seelampur rally that for him the larger enemy is the RSS and BJP.
He rounded up his speech by saying he’ll hold attacking the RSS and BJP until his final breath. However, on some events, he did point out that just like the BJP and the Prime Minister, Kejriwal, too, had didn’t fulfil his promise to the folks of the town.
In Sandeep Dikshit’s presence, Rahul made the purpose that former CM Sheila Dikshit’s Delhi had been compromised and ruined by Kejriwal. However, he additionally attacked Kejriwal over the caste census concern, making it clear that this and the Structure concern had been extra necessary for him. Whereas, for the Congress leaders contesting the polls, highlighting the AAP authorities’s alleged corruption would have been a wiser transfer.
