Delhi Congress urges workers to attend first joint INDI alliance rally

The Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) has urged its workers to attend the upcoming first joint rally of the INDI alliance in the national capital which is scheduled to be held at Ramlila Ground on March 31.

After the arrest of key INDIA bloc leader and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, the coalition is going to organise a joint rally against the 'government's destructive move to crush the opposition parties'.

Though the AAP has been protesting against the arrest of party supremo Kejriwal, there has been no call for a joint protest by the INDI alliance so far.

This will be in all likelihood the first time the alliance partners will share a stage with cadres of AAP and the Congress party joining hands in the rally.

"District and block presidents of the DPCC have been asked to ensure the participation of the maximum number of Congress workers. The rally is to protest against the authoritarian manner in which the BJP Government at the centre has been harassing and suppressing the voice of the opposition parties," said Arvinder Singh Lovely, president, Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC).

"The timing of the freezing of the Congress party’s account on flimsy grounds and the harassment of prominent opposition leaders by the BJP Government when the Election Commission announced the dates of the Lok Sabha elections was only to harass and torment opposition parties(sic)," said Lovely.

Both the key parties of the alliance -- AAP and Congress -- have been trying to come on the same page to attack the BJP ahead of the upcoming general elections through the same narrative of 'attempts of weakening the opposition'.