Senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) termed the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc’s Maharally at the Ramlila Maidan on Sunday a “flop show” and “disunited rally” even as the party ran an online campaign calling the gathering a “carnival of the corrupt” (thagon ka mela).

Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said that the alliance has failed to make a mark in its first show in Delhi with the people of Delhi rejecting the rally call by the two main partners — Aam Aadmi Party and Congress.

“It was a disunited rally recording the presence of a motley crowd of around a few thousand, most of them brought from Punjab and Haryana. Leaders of both Delhi Congress and AAP who were making tall claims on the rally for the last week could not enthuse even their own party workers, leave alone the people of Delhi,” Sachdeva said.

Sachdeva added that the disunity between AAP and Congress was apparent as the photo of Arvind Kejriwal put up near the podium was relocated. “It was well known the Congress has no ground base in Delhi but the rally has shown that AAP leadership too has lost connection with Delhiites. The rally was a flop show with 61 AAP MLAs failing to muster people for the rally,” he added.

Saying that Kejriwal has now created conditions where he has united with people he previously called corrupt, Parvesh Verma, BJP MP from West Delhi said: “A few years ago, Kejriwal protested against the corruption of the leaders of the Indi alliance in Ramlila Maidan and today, the same leaders have united,” said Verma.