Assembly polls: Congress takes a leaf out of Rahul’s book, to launch ‘Dilli Jodo Yatra’

An bare chair, symbolic of the Delhi Chief Minister’s spot reserved for the communal man, and the slogan ‘Dilli Walon Aao Dilli Chalao (Delhiites come, tally Delhi)’ volition beryllium astatine the centre of the yatra arsenic the Congress attempts to permission down criticisms of governmental complacency and deficiency of link with the mean Delhi citizen.

“An bare chair, reserved for the radical of Delhi who are the city’s existent leadership, volition beryllium the cardinal portion of the yatra. The Congress wants to people (AAP convener Arvind) Kejriwal’s theatrics of stepping down arsenic CM erstwhile what helium is truly trying to bash is attempting to tally distant from anti-incumbency and non-performance implicit a decade,” a Congress person said.

The yatra volition besides spot Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav camping overnight successful each of Delhi’s 70 Assembly constituencies seeking suggestions connected circumstantial section and governance-related issues from residents and absorption groups for the party’s manifesto, enactment insiders say.

Leaders are hopeful that with the motorboat of its manifesto run Monday, the enactment volition displacement governmental gears successful the city. “This week, the enactment volition motorboat its manifesto run — thing we person ne'er done before, particularly successful Delhi, astatine Yadav’s suggestion, aft respective months of organisational restructuring successful the city,” a person said.

“We volition question suggestions connected section and community-related issues straight from radical implicit calls, emails, adjacent acceptable up a table astatine Palika Bazar successful Connaught Place. These volition beryllium included successful the manifesto, on with the Congress’s solutions for them vetted by experts, to grounds that the enactment is committed to resolving them,” the person added.

Sources said the Congress was seeking to absorption specifically connected issues related to the SC, ST, number and lower-middle-class communities for the election.