Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge has said that Congress is fighting to save democracy and the Constitution in the country. Addressing an election event of the party in Jaipur on Saturday (6th April 2024) afternoon in which the party launched its manifesto ‘Nyay Patra’, the Congress chief said that Congress worked for the development in 55 years of its rule, created infrastructure, made institutions like IIT, IIM but BJP was only taking credit by flagging off trains on tracks laid by the Congress governments.

Kharge also accused the BJP of stealing the word ‘Guarantee’ and said that Congress governments fulfilled guarantees in states where it was in rule. Mr. Kharge said that Congress is ready to give account of the work done in 55 years. Addressing the rally Senior Congress leader and former president of the party Sonia Gandhi claimed that for the last 10 years, the country has been in the hands of a government that left no stone unturned to promote unemployment, inflation, economic crisis and inequality. She said that country is not the property of a few people, it belongs to everyone. Addressing the event earlier, the party’s national general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra referred to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren’s arrest by federal agencies to claim that the opposition was under attack under the BJP rule at the Centre. Former CM Ashok Gehlot, PCC chief Govind Singh Dotasra, former deputy CM Sachin Pilot also addressed the programme.