Congress gears up for Delhi bypolls, campaign to focus on Kejriwal-Modi blame game

The Congress party’s Delhi unit — that has been sitting on the sidelines over the past three years after it was wiped out of the legislative assembly — has finally found a reason to celebrate following the disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs in an office of profit case.

With imminent bypolls on the 20 seats, Congress is set to cite the Arvind Kejriwal-Narendra Modi blame game and seek a mandate for stable governance.

From Monday onwards the party will hold workers’ convention across districts in the national Capital in a bid to mobilise the party cadre.

Party leaders said that though “it is too early” for the candidate selection process to begin, a strong campaign highlighting “AAP government’s failures and BJP’s non-performance in all the three municipal corporations” will begin on the ground.

“Be it Arvind Kejriwal or Narendra Modi, both have failed to deliver on their promises. While AAP has only engaged in blame game, BJP at the centre and MCDs is mired in corruption and inefficiency. Delhi has seen complete lack of governance in the past three years during which the Congress despite being out of the Assembly has emerged as a formidable Opposition on the ground leading protests and demonstrations and fighting for the people,” Delhi Mahila Congress chief Sharmishtha Mukherjee told Mail Today.

“Half of Arvind Kejriwal’s cabinet had to be dismissed on corruption charges. For every small thing, he blames the BJP and plays the victim card. Soon after the AAP came to power it wasted huge sums of public money to put up large hoardings complaining how the BJP was not letting it work. If Kejriwal is unable to deliver, he should resign and let us do it,” Mukherjee added.

Leaders maintained that the party has studied its increasing vote share since 2015 Assembly polls and is confident of making a comeback to the Legislative Assembly this time.