New Delhi: Reaching out to the migrant population in Delhi ahead of the Dec 4 assembly polls, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Sunday described the national capital as a "city of migrants".
"Delhi is a city of migrants. It is like a mini India," Gandhi said at a Congress election rally at Ambedkar Nagar.
"My family migrated from Kashmir to Uttar Pradesh, and (then from) Uttar Pradesh to Delhi. Sheila-ji's family also migrated from Uttar Pradesh."
"For us, everyone is the same in Delhi, let it be Hindu or Muslim... People go from Uttar Pradesh to Maharashtra and Shiv Sena chases them out," he said.
Wooing the migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar has been the focus of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as well, which has promised special perks for them.
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, however, has in the past blamed the huge influx of migrants for lack of civic amenities as well as for the rise in crimes like rape.
