Mumbai: A Chaiwalla named Inder Joshi, who runs a tea stall in Azad Maidan near Mumbai Regional Congress Committee (MRCC) denied giving credit to Congress workers and claims that MRCC owes him Rs 2 lakh according to a report.
He said “My family has been running this shop from decades. They (The Congress) have not paid since a long time and we have stopped giving chai on credit to them”
But he also said that Congress is a long time customer and he is confident that they will pay him the money very soon.
MRCC party workers loves Joshi’s chai and Sanjay Nirupam president of MRCC said: “he makes good chai and we have not paid the bill from last few months and we will settle the bill soon”.
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He added that the bill was 4 lakh initially and half of the bill has already been settled.
Another Congress leader said that the party was going through the cash crunch. He said: “Our party make fun of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who once worked as a tea seller. But here we don’t have money to clear the chaiwallah’s bill.”
According to the report, earlier in July that the Congress was going through the shortage of funds and decided to run a “low-cost” campaign for BMC elections.
So instead of covering roadsides, airwaves and newspapers with ads or booking a private agency to work clever poll messages, the Congress decided to rely on old-school techniques such as the formation of mohalla gatherings, taking out padayatras, staging protests and distributing pamphlets.
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