As top leaders of the BJP and AAP have taken centre stage in the campaigning for upcoming Delhi Assemby polls, Congress is yet to introduce its bigwigs like Rahul Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Navjot Singh Sidhu anticipating poor performance.
Few local Congress leaders expressed shock saying that it is very discouraging. "It is beyond the imagination why they are still sleeping with just nine days left for campaigning to end for the February 8 Delhi polls. I was told that some of the star campaigners were not interested in campaigning anticipating party's poor performance. But I cannot understand why others who are named in the list still out of campaigning," a senior Delhi Congress leader said requesting anonymity.
The party had listed Navjot Singh Sidhu and veteran actor Shatrughan Sinha, Sonia Gandhi, Ashok Gehlot, Kamal Nath, Amarinder Singh, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Nadeem Javed, among others to campaign for the party in the capital elections but none of them has participated in the campaign in favour of party candidates. However, a senior Delhi Congress leader said that Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi will soon address rallies and hold roadshows.
On the other hand, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, along with AAP supporters and volunteers, has conducted on average three to four road-shows every day, while his Ministers and senior leaders are visiting door to door to convey development works done by the party in last five years. Besides, party leaders are addressing gatherings, holding jan sabha in Delhi's 70 assembly constituencies in a bid to retain power. It has also launched a mega-campaign titled "Mera Vote Kaam Ko, Seedhe Kejriwal Ko" as part of aggressive campaigning with the single aim to reach at each and every voter of Delhi at least two times in the next 10 days with a single message "Vote for work, Vote for the future of Delhi, Vote for Kejriwal".
The AAP has also announced to hold 11,000 Jan Sabhas and nukkad nataks in Delhi in next seven days. Party volunteers along with senior leaders have been reaching and knocking each and every door and handing over 'guarantee card' launched by Kejriwal.
The BJP has fielded more than 200 MPs and MLAs including party's bigwigs like Union Home Minister Amit Shah, JP Nadda, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Vijay Rupani and many others. The BJP has also fielded Union ministers, chief ministers and MPs in support for its candidates. The party has hold more than 4,000 public rallies and jan sabhas.