Congress-AAP shame each other for being BJP’s pawn as Rahul Gandhi launches own agaitation, urges CJP agitators to join in

The national politics is a bit tangled at the moment. The issue of paper leaks and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation has resonated from the streets to Sansad.

Despite that, it appears that knives are out in the Opposition and, instead of focusing on the grievances of students, the parties are fighting to somehow regain their lost ground.

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And this was evident on Tuesday when the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) accused the principal Opposition party, Congress, of being a pawn of the ruling BJP.

As Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh met Rahul Gandhi, who staged a brief sit-in near the Prime Minister’s residence, to convince him to clear the spot, AAP claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi intentionally allowed the Congress leader’s dharna to weaken the Cockroach Janata Party’s (CJP) Jantar Mantar protest.

Interestingly enough, Rahul was protesting against the alleged police crackdown on CJP protesters during Monday’s march to Parliament, which the AAP had supported with full force.

However, AAP leaders, including Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh and former Delhi CM Atishi, saw a fixed match between the Congress and the BJP.

Sanjay Singh alleged that the Congress has been “abusing” the CJP protest for a month and now Rahul Gandhi wants Jantar Mantar protesters to join his protest outside the PM’s residence.

“Why does the Congress want to weaken the youth’s movement? Why doesn’t the Congress appeal for people to join the Jantar Mantar movement?” he asked.

His AAP colleague Atishi went a step further, terming Rahul Gandhi’s dharna a “fixed match” between the Congress and the BJP.

“The same Delhi Police that was not allowing CJP to move even 100 metres towards Parliament allowed Rahul Gandhi to reach right outside the PM’s residence! Do we need any more evidence that Congress and the BJP are one unit?” Atishi said on X.

Meanwhile, another AAP leader, Jasmine Shah, questioned the government’s swift outreach to Rahul Gandhi. “Within hours, two Ministers were sent for talks with Rahul Gandhi, but none came to the Cockroach Janata Party… won’t this raise suspicion? They won’t go and meet those leading the country’s biggest youth movement but went to meet the leaders of a BJP-sponsored ‘fixed-match protest.'”