Invoking Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘mohabbat ki dukaan’ statement, Delhi Minister and AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj on Sunday urged he should show a big heart saying Rahul should prove he is selling 'mohabbat' in his 'dukaan'.
As Congress leader Rahul is seems to be reluctant on the Ordinance issue, the AAP has forward a new condition as the party's national spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar said Congress should not project Rahul as the leader for the third time In a veiled at Congress, Kakkar said, "If the country is to be saved, then at first the Congress should announce that they will not bet on Rahul for the third time and won't force the opposition. In the interest of the country, this is more crucial than saving the Constitution”.
In a reply to Maken, Kakkar also replied that Congress leaders including . Maken and former MP Sandeep Dixit had also made statements against the AAP and that “respect is a two-way street”. Kakkar in turn, questioned why Maken was objecting to the AAP contesting elections when the Congress could not defeat the BJP in Gujarat for the last 30 years.
“Will Kejriwal be blamed for the Congress party’s failures in Gujarat? AAP did not contest elections in Assam, Nagaland, Puducherry, Tripura, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Manipur, Arunachal, then why Congress lost there?,” Kakkar said in reply.Earlier, Bharadwaj appealed Rahul to show a big heart. Bharadwaj said, “"I always see that Rahul talks about love and says that BJP spreads hate. If Rahul is running 'Mohabbat ki Dukan', whoever reaches out to him can get that love…he has to show this also”.
AAP leader also called upon the Opposition parties to put aside their difference and fight unitedly against the BJP in the next Lok Sabha polls.
This comes after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal told Rahul Gandhi to forget the differences and move forward together at the opposition meeting in Patna but he did not show any interest in his request. He requested Rahul “with folded hands” to fix a meeting to resolve differences, the latter declined. Congress, however, maintained that Rahul kept mum about the ordinance. Bharadwaj also had advised for the Congress on public perception. He said being egoistic is fine, but there's a threshold beyond which people and other parties will start feeling that the new government after regime change is high on ego.
“When he said that his party spread love then he has to show this also. Right now he (Rahul Gandhi) is not in power so he is not having an ego but what if he becomes egoistic when he will be in power. So he needs to be balanced and shows that he is spreading love,” Bharadwaj said.