Battle For Delhi: Rahul Gandhi In AAP’s List Of Dishonest Leaders; Kejriwal’s Cut-Out Dipped In Yamuna [Watch]

New Delhi: Ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections, political parties are engaged in poster war. The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday escalated its poster war ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections, taking aim at rivals Congress and the BJP. For the first time, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi was featured prominently in the Arvind Kejriwal-led party’s campaign posters.

The poster, which bears the provocative tagline “Kejriwal’s honesty will outweigh all the dishonest people” also features photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, and Delhi BJP leaders. However, the inclusion of Rahul Gandhi signalled that the gloves are off for AAP.

The broadside comes after the Gandhi scion hit out at AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal over his governance track record, claiming that he cannot match the achievements of former Delhi Chief Minister and Congress leader Sheila Dikshit.

“Delhi now wants the real development model of former chief minister Sheila Dikshit and not the false propaganda and PR model of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal,” Gandhi said at a rally on Thursday.

Gandhi had previously alleged that Kejriwal was following PM Modi’s “strategy of propaganda and false promises” while failing to address rising pollution, corruption, and inflation in the capital. On another occasion, he charged that both the Prime Minister and the AAP chief do not want marginalised groups, such as Dalits and tribals, to receive their due.

Congress leader Ajay Maken, who previously labelled Kejriwal “anti-national,” and Sandeep Dikshit, the son of Sheila Dikshit contesting against the AAP supremo in the New Delhi constituency, also appear on the poster. The BJP also released a new poster on social media, renewing its ‘aapda’ (disaster) attack on the ruling party in Delhi. “On 5th February, people of Delhi will teach a lesson to AAP-da gang of big thugs full of goons and criminals!” it captioned the post.

The Delhi Assembly election, scheduled for February 5 with results on February 8, is shaping up to be a triangular contest. Despite being allies in the INDIA opposition bloc, AAP and Congress are contesting the polls separately. AAP leaders have dismissed Congress as “irrelevant” in Delhi’s political landscape, accusing it of colluding with the BJP.

With the stakes high, Kejriwal’s party has sought to frame the election as a battle between its “honest governance” and what it calls the failures of both national parties.

Meanwhile, BJP candidate from the New Delhi assembly constituency, Parvesh Verma reached Yamuna Ghat and took a jibe at AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal over the issue of cleaning Yamuna River. He took a cut-out of Kejriwal to the river for its cleansing and dipped it in the water.