New Delhi, November 17: 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.
“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.
He also claimed that as compared to NDA, the UPA has created more infrastructure in the country, besides empowering the people, including women.
“We see all as equal. In Delhi, all are one for us. They could be Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christian, belong to any caste or region,” he said.
He was addressing an election rally in Ambedkar Nagar here in South Delhi where his grandmother and late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had addressed an election rally in the 1980s.
This was Mr. Gandhi’s second election rally in Delhi, the first being in Mangolpuri recently in the run up to the December four assembly elections.
Talking of the issue of corruption, which has been used by BJP to target UPA government, Mr. Gandhi said Congress gave people RTI to fight it.
“The decisions used to be taken inside closed door have come out in open. You can ask government anything,” he said.
Congress, he said, believed in empowering people besides carrying out development.
