Congress will win 2019 elections, says Rahul Gandhi at Jan Aakrosh rally
New Delhi: Sounding the bugle for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday tore into the BJP-led Central government at the party’s “Jan Aakrosh Rally” here.
Launching a blistering, personal attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress president oozed confidence at the Ramlila Maidan rally and said, “One has to search for the truth in the speeches that are given by Mr Modi.”
Predicting that his party was in a comeback mode all over the country, he claimed that the Congress would not only retain power in Karnataka but also wrest it from the BJP in the coming Assembly polls in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, and of course in the Lok Sabha.
Mr Gandhi added, “The name of this rally is ‘Jan Aakrosh’ (public anger). Wherever I go these days, I ask a simple question to the people: ‘Are you happy?’ — and I get the same answer: ‘No’.”
Hitting back at the Congress, BJP president Amit Shah accused it of practising dynastic politics, and termed the party’s Jan Aakrosh Rally as a “Parivar Aakrosh Rally”. He said the Congress were ousted from successive states in Assembly elections over the past three years owing to “Jan Aadesh”.
