At Patparganj poll rally Rahul Gandhi attacks AAP: ‘Sisodia ran away after liquor scam’

In Patparganj, Rahul urged voters to backmost Congress campaigner Anil Chaudhary, claiming that the sitting MLA, AAP’s Manish Sisodia, had “run away” aft being implicated arsenic the “architect of the liquor scam”.

Sisodia, who switched his spot from Patparganj to Jangpura this year, was the Deputy Chief Minister till 2022. He resigned weeks aft being arrested by the ED and the CBI successful narration to the excise argumentation lawsuit successful 2023.

Referring to the Ram Temple inauguration, Rahul said, “At the Ram Mandir consecration, not a azygous mediocre idiosyncratic was present. The richest of the affluent were invited, but the President, an Adivasi woman, was not present.”

Rahul alleged that Modi was prioritising interests of almighty billionaires implicit the payment of the citizens. “(Industrialist Gautam) Adani gets each the airdrome contracts. GST wealth doesn’t spell to farmers, tiny shopowners, oregon thoroughfare vendors — it goes to the billionaires,” helium claimed.

He criticised policies similar the Agnipath scheme, arguing that it stripped soldiers of their pensions portion enriching the wealthy. Speaking connected unemployment, helium told the gathering, “You nonstop your children to assemblage to unafraid jobs, but successful today’s India, adjacent a grade doesn’t warrant employment. Meanwhile, the children of billionaires tin imagination and execute anything.”

In his address, Chaudhary sought to link with Purvanchali voters of Patparganj by raising slogans of ‘Chatti Maiyya ki jai’.

In Okhla, asking the assemblage to ballot for the Congress, Rahul reminded them of the party’s 2024 Lok Sabha performance. “No substance who fears Narendra Modi, we volition not. He nary longer talks astir his 56-inch thorax due to the fact that we person exposed the world down their claims of 400-paar, we proved them to beryllium mendacious successful the Lok Sabha elections.”

The Congress-led INDIA bloc confederation had won 235 seats, of which 99 were won by the Congress successful the 2024 polls.

Okhla Congress campaigner and MCD councillor Ariba Khan highlighted AAP’s unfulfilled promises and the deficiency of improvement successful the constituency.

She recited Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poesy — “Ae khak nashino uth baitho wo waqt kareeb aa gaya hai, jab takht uchale jayenge, jab taj uchale jayenge (O downtrodden, aftermath up, the clip has travel erstwhile thrones volition beryllium toppled, erstwhile crowns volition fall)”.

The 2 rallies marked Rahul’s 2nd and 3rd appearances successful the Capital’s run trail, pursuing his January 13 rally successful Seelampur. He had past accused some Modi and Kejriwal of making mendacious promises, drafting parallels betwixt the 2 leaders. The Seelampur rally had besides signaled a displacement successful Congress’s strategy, with Rahul openly opposing AAP, an INDIA bloc ally, aft failed confederation talks for the Assembly elections.

However, Rahul’s run was disrupted by sick wellness successful the days that followed. He missed 4 events, including a January 20 rally alongside Congress campaigner Sandeep Dikshit and a January 24 rally successful Sadar Bazar.

At the Patparganj rally, radical climbed up barricades, chairs, and adjacent buildings for a glimpse of Rahul, with chants of ‘Mohar lagega haath pe’ and ‘Button dabega haath pe’ echoing done the air.

In Okhla, residents cheered arsenic Rahul made his mode to the stage. After the rally, the streets came live with solemnisation arsenic supporters danced and waved Congress posters.