Congress to hold ‘Jan Akrosh’ rally in Delhi

The Congress is organising a massive "jan aakrosh rally" (mass outrage rally) at the Ramlila Maidan here on Sunday as the first one to be addressed by Rahul Gandhi since taking over the party's reigns.

While everyone in the party is busy to make it a big success, Rahul himself tweeted to join the rally in a large number to express the angst on the great disappointment from the Modi government.

He tweeted that the rally is to give a voice to the outrage of the people over four years of the Modi government giving no employment to the youth, no security to women, no right price to farmers for their produce and no rights to Dalits and minorities.

The party has mobilised all state units to bring maximum number of people to the maiden rally of Rahul to register the people's disenchantment with the government.

Party Spokespersons Randeep Singh Surjewala and Ashok Gehlot said that the key issues related to farmers, women, national security, and "impropriety" of Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, Vyapam scam of Madhya Pradesh, CBSE paper leaks and mining issues would be raised at the rally to be held at the Ramleela Maidan.

The party's former President Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and other leaders will address the rally.

"We are holding this rally to represent the emotions and turmoil that every citizen of the country is going through," said Gehlot, a former Rajasthan Chief Minister.

"The rally will aim to bring overall change and awakening in the country... it will represent the outrage of the farmers, price rise, women security, and corruption occuring right under the nose of Prime Minister Narendra Modi," Surjewala said. Pointing out to the poor condition of farmers in the country, Surjewala said that they neither got any loan waivers nor their due rights.

He also rued that increasing prices of diesel and petrol were affecting the life of the common man.

"The Modi government has collected Rs 10 lakh crore as excise and custom duty on oil in the past four years. Where is that money?"

There is also outrage over rising incidents of rape and women security, he said.

"The way Cabinet Minister Piyush Goyal is found involved in a case of conflict of interest and gratification and how a Rs 10 share was sold for Rs 5,700 under the 'Modi model'... and the Minister and his family hides it from everyone... there is an outrage in the nation," Surjewala said.

He also accused the Union government of compromising national security by not acting against intrusion of the Chinese forces in Indian territory.