Delhi Congress accused the BJP and AAP of trying to politicise Shaheen Bagh protests by giving it communal colour in a bid to evade the core issues affecting the people of Delhi.
Party president Subhash Chopra said that both the BJP and AAP are trying to give communal colour to the Shaheen Bagh protest against the CAA and NCR to polarise the voters. Chopra asserted that the Congress party will not allow the BJP and AAP to succeed in their nefarious agenda.
Addressing the media during his campaign in Kalkaji for party candidate Shivani Chopra, Subhash Chopra said that the public transport are in a mess, roads are broken, pollution levels keep rising, polluted drinking water and rising crime rates in Delhi are the main issues dogging the people of Delhi but both the BJP and AAP instead of addressing these issues, are playing politics on the Shaheen Bagh protest to divert the attention of the people by propagating lies and falsehood.
Terming the Shaheen Bagh issue very serious, he said "In a democracy, people have every right to hold peaceful protests to express their views, and what is happening in Shaheen Bagh is a symbolic protest against CAA and NCR,"
He said that the fact that women, children and old people are sitting on dharna braving the chilling cold weather shows the seriousness of the issue, but the BJP and AAP seem to be least concerned as these parties have not bothered to initiate a dialogue with them till now. "It seems that what is prevailing in the country is not democracy but an autocratic rule," he said, adding that it was time for the AAP Government in Delhi and the BJP to take initiative to have a dialogue with the people of Shaheen Bagh to find peaceful solutions to the issues they have raised.