‘The security was very tight. People were not allowed to carry water bottle. So they may have been thirsty. When water was not allowed people got little anguished,’ Dikshit said, when asked about the low turnout as well as why people left before Rahul’s speech at Dakshinpuri rally on Sunday.
The chief minister said people who had come in the beginning had to wait for long and that could be one of the reasons for leaving the venue before Rahul started his nearly seven-minute-long speech.
She, however, claimed that it was a ‘good rally’ and that the Congress vice president, who is the party’s star campaigner, delivered an ‘impressive speech’. ‘It was a good rally. He delivered an impressive speech,’ she said.
Playing down the events, information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari said that he did not consider crowds at rallies to be the yardstick of the manner in which people vote.
‘I do not think that crowds are an indicator or a benchmark of how people eventually exercise there democratic franchise. Now there are two versions of what happened,’ he said.
The chief minister said people who had come in the beginning had to wait for long and that could be one of the reasons for leaving the venue before Rahul started his nearly seven-minute-long speech.
She, however, claimed that it was a ‘good rally’ and that the Congress vice president, who is the party’s star campaigner, delivered an ‘impressive speech’. ‘It was a good rally. He delivered an impressive speech,’ she said.
Playing down the events, information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari said that he did not consider crowds at rallies to be the yardstick of the manner in which people vote.
‘I do not think that crowds are an indicator or a benchmark of how people eventually exercise there democratic franchise. Now there are two versions of what happened,’ he said.