NEW DELHI: Daggers are drawn and shields are up between two opposition INDIA bloc allies ahead of the Delhi assembly elections as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged that Arvind Kejriwal “shivers” on hearing PM Modi‘s name.
Soon after Rahul’s remark, Kejriwal rebutted with a dig linked to the National Herald case in which Rahul and his mother Sonia Gandhi are defendants.
Addressing a rally in Okhla on Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi said he wasn’t sure about other opposition leaders but could confirm that “Arvind Kejriwal shivers on hearing PM Modi’s name”.
The clip of Rahul’s assertion was posted on X by the official handle of the Congress party, replying to which Kejriwal asked why haven’t Rahul and his family been arrested in “open and shut cases like National Herald”.
Kejriwal even hit out at Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s husband Robert Vadra, asking “How did he get a clean chit from the BJP?”
“Modiji puts people in jail even by making fake cases like the liquor scam. Why haven’t you and your family been arrested in open-and-shut cases like the National Herald? How did Robert Vadra get a clean chit from the BJP? It is better if you don’t preach on fear and bravery. The country knows who is a coward and who is brave,” Kejriwal wrote on X.
Raul Gandhi held a rally in Delhi on Tuesday, where he took multiple jabs at AAP Supremo Arvind Kejriwal.
Addressing the gathering at Patparganj, Rahul accused Kejriwal of not helping the poor and vanishing in times of need of the people.
“Kejriwal says anything that comes to his mind, when he came, he had a small car and had said that he will do a new kind of politics. He had said he will change Delhi but when poor people were in need, he wasn’t there, when riots happened he wasn’t there,” said the Congress leader.
In a further attack on the ex-Delhi CM, Rahul added, “He said he will do clean politics, but in Delhi, the biggest scam of liquor happened and you must have seen the photo of his house…Kejriwal stays in a palace, ‘Sheesh Mahal’. So this is the truth.”