For the first time, Congress president Sonia Gandhi mounted an attack on Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday at a rally in New Delhi’s Ajmal Khan Park stating that a few people ‘making tall claims ran away in few days’. She also singled out BJP for preaching ‘politics of hatred and communalism’ and making big ‘false promises’.
Addressing a well attended rally, she lashed out at AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal. Without naming Kejriwal she said, “A few people came with tall claims and ran away in few days. They do not know that running a government is not a child’s job.”
The Congress that lost its Delhi government to emergence of AAP is hoping not to perform as bad in the
Lok Sabha elections. Congress had won all the seven Lok Sabha seats during the 2009 elections.
Congress workers responded enthusiastically to her barbs on AAP. Slogans of Sonia Gandhi zindabad and Congress zindabad followed.
Highlighting the achievements of Hakim Ajmal Khan, a freedom fighter, on whose honour the park has been named, the UPA chairperson said that Khan has been always symbol of unity between two communities but a few people (BJP) are teaching ‘ideology of fanaticism’. She said election is fight between two different ideologies. “Congress ideology teaches love and equality and we always have goodwill for opposition parties but out there some are teaching fanaticism and how to create conflict between two communities,” she said.
In a veiled attack on the BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Gandhi said: “I am in politics to take the tradition of the Congress party forward. For me it is more important to protect the Ganga-Jamuni Tahzeeb than going after power. But there are certain individual and organisations who want to take the country into the direction of darkness and doom. But I have faith in the judgment of people and even this time you won't make a mistake in taking the right direction and support the Congress party.”
Gandhi described the saffron party as a “divisive force” and said that they will ‘ruin the country’.
BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is contesting from the holy city of Varanasi, largely known for its Ganga-Jamuni Tahzeeb – which largely describes the sense of brotherhood between different religions.
The Congress president also slammed BJP for “raising the pitch over the issue of nationalism and patriotism”. She questioned the tall claims of BJP and AAP on nationalism. “BJP and others (AAP) can only give speeches of nationalism and patriotism and at public rallies but the truth is patriotism flows in the veins of Congress,” she roared.
She said that if they want to learn nationalism they should learn from Congress. “If they want to learn, they should learn from Congress people who scarified their lives. They should learn from soldiers fighting for the country of a common man working day and night to earn food,” she roared.
She clarified the people that running a government or being in power is not an important issue for Congress but making the ‘countrymen proud of being Indian is most important’. “I am proud that people of India raise their head across the world with great pride,” she said.
She also highlighted the Congress has made several policies of poor and needy under leadership of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. “I am proud to bring laws where street vendors don’t have to shell out money to police and sanitation workers will not be employed on contract basis anymore. Had the opposition not stalled parliament proceedings we could have brought many such laws,” she said.
She sought the support of the Delhiites stating that people in the capital “have always made the right choice and would once again vote in favour of her party nominees”.
Interestingly, she was sharing dais with New Delhi parliamentary candidate Ajay Maken, Delhi Congress leader Arvinder Singh Lovely and Shakeel Ahmad and rest of the leaders -- Sandeep Dikshit, Kapil Sibal, Mahabal Mishra, Ramesh Kumar and Krishna Tirath were below the dais and they only after Gandhi ended her speech.
Gandhi arrived an hour and a half behind schedule at 5.30 p.m and during that time the party leaders Sandeep Dikshit, Ajay Maken, Shakeel Ahmad, Arvinder Singh Lovely and Ramesh Kumar had engrossed the crowd with their speeches.
The rally was the first by a top Congress leader after Indira Gandhi held a rally in 1979 at the same venue, however, there was mix response from the people.
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Addressing a well attended rally, she lashed out at AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal. Without naming Kejriwal she said, “A few people came with tall claims and ran away in few days. They do not know that running a government is not a child’s job.”
The Congress that lost its Delhi government to emergence of AAP is hoping not to perform as bad in the
Lok Sabha elections. Congress had won all the seven Lok Sabha seats during the 2009 elections.
Congress workers responded enthusiastically to her barbs on AAP. Slogans of Sonia Gandhi zindabad and Congress zindabad followed.
Highlighting the achievements of Hakim Ajmal Khan, a freedom fighter, on whose honour the park has been named, the UPA chairperson said that Khan has been always symbol of unity between two communities but a few people (BJP) are teaching ‘ideology of fanaticism’. She said election is fight between two different ideologies. “Congress ideology teaches love and equality and we always have goodwill for opposition parties but out there some are teaching fanaticism and how to create conflict between two communities,” she said.
In a veiled attack on the BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Gandhi said: “I am in politics to take the tradition of the Congress party forward. For me it is more important to protect the Ganga-Jamuni Tahzeeb than going after power. But there are certain individual and organisations who want to take the country into the direction of darkness and doom. But I have faith in the judgment of people and even this time you won't make a mistake in taking the right direction and support the Congress party.”
Gandhi described the saffron party as a “divisive force” and said that they will ‘ruin the country’.
BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is contesting from the holy city of Varanasi, largely known for its Ganga-Jamuni Tahzeeb – which largely describes the sense of brotherhood between different religions.
The Congress president also slammed BJP for “raising the pitch over the issue of nationalism and patriotism”. She questioned the tall claims of BJP and AAP on nationalism. “BJP and others (AAP) can only give speeches of nationalism and patriotism and at public rallies but the truth is patriotism flows in the veins of Congress,” she roared.
She said that if they want to learn nationalism they should learn from Congress. “If they want to learn, they should learn from Congress people who scarified their lives. They should learn from soldiers fighting for the country of a common man working day and night to earn food,” she roared.
She clarified the people that running a government or being in power is not an important issue for Congress but making the ‘countrymen proud of being Indian is most important’. “I am proud that people of India raise their head across the world with great pride,” she said.
She also highlighted the Congress has made several policies of poor and needy under leadership of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. “I am proud to bring laws where street vendors don’t have to shell out money to police and sanitation workers will not be employed on contract basis anymore. Had the opposition not stalled parliament proceedings we could have brought many such laws,” she said.
She sought the support of the Delhiites stating that people in the capital “have always made the right choice and would once again vote in favour of her party nominees”.
Interestingly, she was sharing dais with New Delhi parliamentary candidate Ajay Maken, Delhi Congress leader Arvinder Singh Lovely and Shakeel Ahmad and rest of the leaders -- Sandeep Dikshit, Kapil Sibal, Mahabal Mishra, Ramesh Kumar and Krishna Tirath were below the dais and they only after Gandhi ended her speech.
Gandhi arrived an hour and a half behind schedule at 5.30 p.m and during that time the party leaders Sandeep Dikshit, Ajay Maken, Shakeel Ahmad, Arvinder Singh Lovely and Ramesh Kumar had engrossed the crowd with their speeches.
The rally was the first by a top Congress leader after Indira Gandhi held a rally in 1979 at the same venue, however, there was mix response from the people.
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