Rahul Gadhi launched a scathing attack on BJP and its ally Shiv Sena for targeting migrants in Maharashtra and Karnataka, Rahul Gandhi on Sunday warned that this has fanned tension, while Congress has taken everyone along irrespective of caste, religion or the region they come from.
“In Karnataka, Maharashtra they create tension. People from Uttar Pradesh go to Maharashtra and people from Shiv Sena make them run away. But here (in Delhi and Congress-ruled states) we have love and brotherhood. We want to take everyone along,” the Congress vice-president said.
Reaching out to the migrant population ahead of December 4 assembly polls, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday described Delhi as a "city of migrants".
"Delhi is a city of migrants. It is like mini India," said Rahul Gandhi at a Congress election rally at Ambedkar Nagar in the city.
"For us, everyone is the same in Delhi, let it be Hindu or Muslim... People go from Uttar Pradesh to Maharashtra and Shiv Sena chases them out," he said.
Wooing the migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar has been in focus of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as well, which has promised special perks for them.
While launching a scathing attack on BJP and its ally Shiv Sena for targeting migrants in Maharashtra and Karnataka, Rahul Gandhi on Sunday warned that this has fanned tension, while Congress has taken everyone along irrespective of caste, religion or the region they come from.
Chief minister Sheila Dikshit, however, has in past blamed the huge influx of migrant population for civic amenity problems as well as for the rise in crimes like rape. But Rahul Gandhi praised Dikshit-led government in the capital has changed the face of the city.
Rahul accepted that in spite of Sheila's huge objection in past to the influx of migrants (does this refer to infiltration of Bangladesh nationals,not clarified ?), she worked and thanked her by saying, "Sheila government has changed Delhi." (Was Rahul meant to the change of Delhi from national capital to Rape capital ?)
INDIA HONEST warns : you cannot put double standard, while blaming Shiv Sena on one hand and otherwise praising Congress Shiela Dikshit for her "blame on outsiders for the problems civic amenity problems as well as for the rise in crimes like rape". Do the migrants responsible for rapes and crime in Delhi ?