New Delhi: After making party workers and candidates wait for several days, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his sister and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday addressed public rallies in Delhi. While Rahul attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying he has no understanding of religion, Priyanka accused Modi and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of splurging money on publicity efforts.Rahul addressed an election rally at Jangpura, which has a significant number of Sikh voters and from where Congress has fielded former chief whip Talvinder Singh Marwah.‘No religion teaches violence’Taking the BJP leadership head on over its campaign centred around the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests at Shaheen Bagh, Rahul accused the prime minister of lacking any understanding of religion. Stating that no holy book has ever taught violence, he charged that the “only job of BJP was to spread violence in the country.”Rahul also said the BJP government at the Centre has failed miserably in fulfilling its promises – including on employment. He also quipped that while the Modi government had coined the slogan of ‘Make in India’, not a single factory has been set up under it.Pointing to divestment plans, he quipped, “They are selling everything from Indian Oil to Air India, Hindustan Petroleum, Railways and even Red Fort. They may sell even the Taj Mahal.”‘Promise of 2 crore jobs?’Rahul also accused the Modi government of failing to provide jobs. He asked if the prime minister remembered that he had promised to provide jobs to two crore youth of the country. “Have they got those jobs?” he asked.In the same breath, he also attacked Kejriwal and asked, “What has the AAP and Arvind Kejriwal done to alleviate unemployment in Delhi?”Rahul charged that both BJP and AAP were only involved in “marketing themselves on public money”.The entry of the Gandhi siblings in the poll arena had been much awaited by party cadre. After not winning a single seat in the 2015 Delhi assembly elections, it had regained much ground by the time the 2019 Lok Sabha elections took place in Delhi. In those polls, Congress polled nearly 22% of votes, against AAP’s 18%.‘Crores on publicity’Meanwhile, speaking at a separate rally in Sangam Vihar, Priyanka too attacked Modi and Kejriwal for wasting public money on advertisements, saying they were doing so as they did not have much to show by way of work to the people.BJP supporters at Modi’s Dwarka rally. Photo: PTI“Prime Minister Narendra Modi spent Rs 5,200 crore on publicity while Kejriwal spent Rs 611 crore. What is the need for spending so much on publicity if your work speaks for itself?” she asked.In this regard, Priyanka recalled how the work done by three consecutive Congress governments in Delhi under the leadership of late Sheila Dikshit had led to all-round development.She also accused AAP of not keeping its promises and claimed, “AAP promised five hospitals but did not build a single one.”Priyanka urged the voters to introspect which party really works for them. “Use your vote wisely,” she advised them.Sje also took a dig at Modi for his remarks that the anti-CAA protests at Shaheen Bagh and other parts of Delhi were not a ‘sanyog’ (coincidence) but a ‘prayog’ (experiment) by asking if the sky high rate of unemployment was a coincidence or an experiment.Modi accuses AAP of questioning surgical strikes, Batla House ‘encounter’Modi addressed a rally at Dwarka where he said Delhi now needs a government that works for all. He accused Kejriwal of stalling all welfare schemes of the Centre for the poor of Delhi. “People are saying that like the country Delhi also needs to change,” he said.Accusing the AAP-led Delhi government of “practising the politics of hate”, Modi claimed that BJP has always worked for the betterment of poor and women. Bringing up how AAP leaders had allegedly questioned the surgical strikes, Modi asked, “Are the people of Delhi not angry?”He also charged that those who questioned military operations were the ones who also questioned the authenticity of the Batla House encounter in South Delhi. Without directly referring to the anti-CAA protests at Shaheen Bagh, he also accused AAP of “spreading lies in the name of Citizenship Amendment Act”.