The Congress wants to know why the media continues to highlight the absence of its leader Rahul Gandhi during the crucial budget session of Parliament, but has not made much of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's 10-day leave for naturopathy treatment.
"The media always picks on Rahul Gandhi. Why didn't you raise the issue that due to Kejriwal's absence, the Delhi budget had to be postponed? It has never happened before," said Ajay Maken, who heads the Congress in Delhi.
Youth Congress members and some senior leaders of the party like Mr Maken, Ahmad Patel and parliamentarians Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma, staged a protest march from Jantar Mantar in the capital towards Parliament House today.
Conspicuous by his absence is Rahul Gandhi, who positioned himself as a champion of farmers on land acquisition. Mr Gandhi left Delhi on a sabbatical around the time that the budget session began. At least twice, Congress leaders have shared his date of return, only to say later that he has extended his "leave of absence."
Arvind Kejriwal took leave 10 days' leave to get treatment for a chronic cough and high blood sugar on a health farm in Bengaluru. The timing of his break, coming days after he took over as Delhi CM, too raised eyebrows, but Mr Kejriwal did not go missing like Mr Gandhi seemed to do.
Mr Kejriwal returned to Delhi this evening.
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