"After Rahul Gandhi's historic rally yesterday at Dakshinpuri, the BJP has become afraid, and has cancelled the scheduled rally of Narendra Modi at the Ramlila Maidan today," Congress CLP leader Haroon Yusuf and chief spokesperson Mukesh Sharma said in a joint press conference here at the DPCC office.
They also claimed that the BJP has lost the people's support.
The Congress leaders also alleged that the money "illegally collected by BJP leaders was being used for election campaigns in Delhi" and the Pradesh Congress, in a letter to the Election Commission, has demanded an inquiry into the money being spent by the BJP for the election campaigns.
"Each such screen costs around Rs 15 lakh, the BJP is talking about installing 15 such screens in Delhi. The party would have to account for these expenses to the people of Delhi," said Yusuf.
Both the leaders alleged that this money had been collected from blackmarketeers, and the BJP is spending crores of ruppes in such a manner, through which the real face of the BJP has been exposed before the people.
"The manner in which thousands of people from the resettlement colonies and the JJ Clusters had thronged the historic rally addressed by Rahul Gandhi at the Ramlila Maidan at Dakshinpuri yesterday showed that the AAP has lost its support base among the poor people's colonies," they said.
All the seven AAP candidates would not be able to save even their security deposits in the seven constituencies in Delhi, they said.
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