Rahul Gandhi Campaigns For Sandeep Dikshit In New Delhi Seat, Interacts With NDMC Employees

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday campaigned for Sandeep Dikshit, who is taking on AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal from the New Delhi constituency in the February 5 assembly polls. He also interacted with New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) employees who told him that thousands of people were unemployed due to policies of the BJP-led Centre and the AAP government in Delhi.

Gandhi first visited the Maharishi Valmiki Temple and prayed for the happiness, peace and prosperity of the country, the party said.

"After the 'darshan', I met NDMC employees in a nearby colony. They told me that due to privatisation and contract job policies of the BJP's central government and the AAP's Delhi government, thousands of people are unemployed and are not getting proper salaries," he said in a post on X.

"We are constantly raising this issue -- privatisation and contract jobs are weapons to snatch the rights of the poor and the Bahujans. We will address this first," the opposition leader in the Lok Sabha said.

Locals in Valmiki Colony, Mandir Marg, presented a turban to Gandhi.

The Congress leader also met locals at Gol Market.

Kejriwal is locked in a keen contest against the BJP's Parvesh Verma and the Congress' Sandeep Dikshit -- the son of former chief minister Sheila Dikshit -- in the high-profile New Delhi constituency.

The 70-member Delhi Assembly goes to the polls on February 5 and the votes will be counted on February 8.