Not only the Prime Minister, but P Chidambaram, Sushil Kumar Shinde, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Manish Tewary and Jairam Ramesh also wanted to address election meetings in Delhi, but were prevented from doing so.
Law Minister Kapil Sibal however campaigned as he is a Lok Sabha MP from Delhi, but his campaign did not cut much ice among the voters.
All these facts fly in the face of Sheila Dikshit's assertion that she did not get full cooperation from the party in Delhi. Congress leaders say that it was Sheila's high-handedness that led to the electoral debacle.
Sheila Dikshit even prevented PM, Sonia, Rahul from addressing rallies in Delhi
New Delhi: Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit had such a stranglehold on Congress in Delhi that she refused to allow the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to address a single election rally saying the
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