Delhi Assembly Polls: Days ahead of Delhi Assembly polls, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, saying there is no difference between the two leaders and they do not want backwards, Dalits, tribals, and minorities to get their due share. Targeting AAP chief Kejriwal during his first public meeting for the Delhi polls, Gandhi said that the AAP convenor was following "Modi's strategy of propaganda and false promises" despite rising pollution, corruption, and inflation in the national capital.

Rahul, the former Congress president, promised a caste survey in the national capital if the Congress government is formed in the national capital. He also hailed the work done during the three successive Sheila Dikshit-led governments and asserted that neither Kejriwal nor the BJP can match the Congress' track record.

Rahul also urged Kejriwal to make his stand clear on the issue of caste census and the demand for the removal of the 50 per cent cap on reservations. He promised that the Congress would get a nationwide caste census done and the 50 per cent cap on reservations would be removed through the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha when it forms a government at the Centre.

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The Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Gandhi, said that the Congress is clear in its politics that everyone in the country is equal and exuded confidence that "love will triumph over hatred".

"Look at my politics throughout my life. Till I am alive, whenever an Indian will be assaulted, be it a Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian, that person may be of any caste, you will find Rahul Gandhi protecting that person," the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said addressing his 'Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan' public meeting in Seelampur here.

"This is what India means to me, a country where there is no hatred and the poorest of the poor, be it of any religion or caste, can dream big," he said.

Gandhi said the Congress would not let "billionaires like Adani and Ambani control everything while the poor keep suffering".

"We do not want such an India and we won't let it happen," he said and asked whether Kejriwal and Modi had ever said a word against big businessmen.

Targeting Arvind Kejriwal, he recalled that the AAP chief had said that he would learn Delhi, remove corruption, and turn the national capital into Paris.

"What actually happened-one cannot move around due to pollution and inflation is rising," the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said.

"Arvind Kejriwal had talked of removing corruption. Has he removed corruption? Just like Modi ji's propaganda through the media, making false promises one after another, he (Kejriwal) is following the same strategy. There is no difference at all," Gandhi said.

Meanwhile, Kejriwal, taking to X, said that Rahul Gandhi "abused" him a lot but he will not comment on the Congress leader's statements. "His fight is to save Congress, my fight is to save the country," the AAP chief said.

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The Congress and AAP are part of the INDIA bloc. The two parties had fought the Lok Sabha election together in Delhi but are contesting the assembly polls separately.