Kejriwal & BJP are the same — both are power hungry: Priyanka Gandhi at Delhi rally

“Itni dur kyun khade hai aap log? Main dikh rahi hun?” are Gandhi’s opening words to a roaring crowd.

After telling the assemblage astir the value of electing the close candidate, Gandhi sharpens her knives towards the BJP.

“Brush pe GST hai, kapdon pe GST hai, schoolhouse fees pe GST hai. (GST is levied connected everything from a brushwood to apparel and schoolhouse fees). Due to GST, everyone has to prosecute a CA, nary substance their income. Your taxes are expanding but each you are seeing is Modi ji, Ambani ji, Adani ji and Sheesh Mahal,” she says.

Gandhi past attacks the BJP connected unemployment and deficiency of occupation protection. “All authorities jobs are present connected contract. What are the protections for gig workers?” she asks.

Referring to erstwhile CM Sheila Dikshit and erstwhile PM Manmohan Singh, Gandhi says that it’s them who worked for Delhi portion the BJP and AAP person lone done divisive politics.

“Sheila Dikshit worked for Delhi — she made the roads, did beautification, brought CNG buses, made 70 flyovers, made caller authorities houses. Manmohan Singh and Sheila Dikshit did truthful much. I privation to ask, Modi ji aapne kya kiya. Kejriwal ji aapne kya kya (Modi and Kejriwal, what person you done?). Tell the radical of Delhi what you person done. You person lone divided radical and raised unnecessary issues,” she says.

Taking connected the BJP’s canvass promises, including the “Rs 500 state cylinder”, Gandhi says that each promises of the enactment travel during elections. “I saw that the BJP is promising that it volition springiness a state cylinder successful Rs 500. Now the elections person travel truthful they are promising this. What astir each these years, erstwhile my sisters were paying Rs 1,200 for the cylinder? If you could springiness it now, you could person fixed it previously,” she says.

Taking a excavation astatine AAP, she says some AAP main Arvind Kejriwal and BJP are the aforesaid — some are powerfulness hungry. “The BJP has weakened the radical economically, mentally, socially. They support each the powerfulness centrally. And Kejriwal is the same. He besides wants to support each the powerfulness successful his hands,” she adds.

Addressing Mustafabad’s residents, galore of whom beryllium to the Hindi heartland, she said the ‘Purvanchali’ colonisation would beryllium fixed peculiar accent if the Congress comes to power. “We volition marque a abstracted ministry and a abstracted budget for our Purvanchali radical successful Delhi,” she says.

Lauding the show of governments during Congress tenure successful different states, Gandhi says that the expansive aged enactment has ever delivered erstwhile successful power. “Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, everyplace Congress waived disconnected the loans of farmers. In Telangana, determination is escaped aesculapian attraction for up to Rs 10 lakh. In Jharkhand, we person the Chiranjeevi Yojna. This is what a authorities should bash for you,” she says.

Towards the extremity of her address, Gandhi calls for Delhi to acceptable an illustration for the remainder of the country. “We are beardown due to the fact that our ideology has been strong. But nether this government, ideology has weakened. Your assets person been fixed to large industrialists,” she says.

“Yaha ishwar bhi hai aur ali bhi hai. (It has Ishwar arsenic good arsenic Ali). The metropolis of Delhi is yours, and it should beryllium an illustration for the country. And we volition bash it,” she says.

To her ‘Jai Hind’ astatine the extremity of her speech, the Mustafabad assemblage erupts with chants of ‘Jai Hind… Jai Hind’, portion she gets down the stage.

While the AAP has fielded Adil Ahmad Khan from the seat, the BJP has fixed a summons to five-time MLA Mohan Singh Bisht.

Moin, 28, who runs his chai sutta beverage stall successful Mustafabad, and was calved and brought up successful the area, is not excessively optimistic Mehdi’s chances successful the polls. “It’s AAP vs BJP here. Congress volition chopped the votes of AAP,” helium says.

Sipping beverage astatine the stall, Mohammad Junaid, a idiosyncratic successful a backstage firm, says that if the AAP campaigner had done bully enactment successful the area, adjacent vote-cutting wouldn’t impact the party. “All they (AAP) had to bash was instrumentality attraction of roads and water. This spot is for theirs for the taking. Now, due to the fact that of Congress and AIMM, BJP besides has a decent chance,” helium says.