Delhi Polls Heat Up | Rahul Gandhi And Arvind Kejriwal's War Of Words Escalates

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Monday tore into AAP, an ally of the INDIA bloc, and equated Arvind Kejriwal with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing both of them of making false promises. Minutes later, Kejriwal hit back, saying Rahul Gandhi "abused him" and he was fighting to "save the Congress". Addressing a rally in northeast Delhi's Seelampur, the Gandhi scion touched upon the issue of a nationwide caste census and said that he never heard a word about it from both PM Modi and Kejriwal. Rahul Gandhi's remarks came at a time when tensions between Congress and AAP have been simmering since joining hands in Delhi last year during the Lok Sabha elections. Neither of the parties won a single seat in the national capital in the parliamentary polls. During the rally, Rahul Gandhi alleged that PM Modi and Kejriwal failed to reduce inflation despite promising to do so and asserted that the poor were becoming poorer and the rich richer in India. Recently, the AAP said that it would consult other parties of the INDIA bloc to remove the Congress from the alliance after it filed a complaint against Arvind Kejriwal accusing him of "misleading and deceiving" the public with promises of "non-existent" welfare schemes. Major Opposition parties like the Trinamool Congress, the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the Samajwadi Party have extended their support to AAP in the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls, leaving the Congress isolated in the national capital.