The Delhi Congress on Sunday held a ‘pratigya rally’ in Bawana, an Assembly constituency that falls under the North-West Delhi Lok Sabha seat, a move aimed at reviving the party’s fortunes in the national capital, where it has not been able to win even a single Assembly election or a seat in the Lok Sabha for a decade now.

Addressing a rally in Bawana, Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely lashed out at the BJP and the AAP for ignoring people of dehat areas. “The BJP Government at the Centre and the Delhi  Government have made the people of 365 villages of Delhi, who played a vital role in the building of Delhi, refugees in their own lands. He said that imposing house tax on the villagers of Delhi was not only a crime, but also a violation of the rules and regulations,” he said. Lovely made a frontal attack on the Government on the issue of allotment of ration cards, the ownership of the plots allotted to the poor under the 20-point programme and land pooling, as the Government was acting against the interest of the common people in all these matters. He said that old-age pensions has been stopped, and the facilities provided to rural areas have been discontinued.

Before arriving at the Pratigya Rally venue, Lovely was accorded a warm  welcome at the Britania Chowk on Ring Road by hundreds of party  workers. From there, accompanied by several vehicles, Lovely travelled to Madhuban Chowk, where local people, party workers and shop keepers accorded him a grand reception with garlands. From there Lovely travelled to the Rithala Metro Station, covered almost 15 kms before reaching Bawana.

He was accompanied with Delhi Congress leader Harun Yusuf, Devender Yadav, Bheesham Sharma, Raj Kumar Chauhan, Jai Kishan, Surender Kumar and Mukesh Sharma.

The Congress will hold rallies in all seven Lok Sabha constituencies of Delhi in the coming days.