TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ While Congress party is trying hard to project Rahul Gandhi as a main challenger to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, its senior leader and former Delhi chief minister has opined that the party vice president still lacks maturity and needs more time. Sheila Dikshit, who withdrew as Congress CM candidate in Uttar Pradesh after her party’s stitched an electoral alliance with Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party, also refuted charges that she had stopped campaigning for the party in the state after that.
The Congress veteran was quoted as saying by the Times of India on Friday, ”I have not stopped campaigning for the party.” Talking about the Congress-SP tie-up, Dikshit said, ”There were some initial hiccups but all has been sorted out. This is the era of visibility and Akhilesh is way above everyone else. Mayawati does not have that style so she is there but not too much. BJP does not have a leader for UP. The PM is going there very frequently but everyone understands that he will not be CM.”
She also expressed hope that Muslims and Dalits will support the SP-Congress alliance in UP. Dikshit stressed that the joint campaigning by Rahul and Akhilesh has had a positive impact on voters in UP.
