India, Nov. 2 -- The Congress on Monday rejected the BJP's claim that the INDIA bloc's November 1 rally in the capital cost traders business, saying markets across Delhi stayed busy and shops carried on as usual during the gathering. The party said the warnings of disruption had not come true.

Jairam Ramesh, the Congress's general secretary in charge of communications, shared a media report on X and, in a Hindi post on the same platform, called the BJP's allegations baseless. He accused the ruling party of spreading misinformation to weaken the mega-rally and to discourage people from travelling to Delhi. In West Delhi, BJP workers held a protest against the INDIA bloc event, and the party described Rahul Gandhi's rally as a 'flop show'....