Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday took potshots at Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal over the garbage and stench issue in the national capital.
Sharing a video of a dirty 'nullah' in Rithala, Gandhi wrote on X: "This is Kejriwal's 'shining' Delhi -- the Delhi like Paris!" He used the hashtag "#SaafKaroDilli" with his post.
Gandhi, the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha, visited Rithala and celebrated Makar Sankranti with residents of the area.
The video shows Gandhi walking through piles of garbage as he shows its pitiful condition and lack of roads to the people accompanying him.
"See Delhi, the shining Delhi... Delhi like Paris. It is the same situation everywhere,” Gandhi can be heard saying in the video.
The 70-member Delhi assembly goes to polls on February 5 and the results will be declared on February 8. Both the AAP and the Congress—allies of the INDIA bloc—are going solo in the assembly elections, making it a triangular contest.
In the 2020 elections, AAP bagged 62 seats, leaving only eight seats to the BJP, while the Congress drew a blank. Kejriwal’s party is aiming at a straight third term while the BJP and the Congress hope for a strong comeback.
Gandhi hit the campaign trail on Monday, addressing a public meeting at Seelampur in northeast Delhi. Attacking both the AAP and the BJP, he alleged that Kejriwal was following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “strategy of propaganda and false promises”.
There was no difference between the two leaders as they promised more but didn’t deliver, he said.