Latching on to the salary issue of sanitation workers, Rahul Gandhi today made a strong pro-poor pitch assuring them that he will give his "whole life to fight" for the rights of the under-privileged wherever they are being suppressed.   

"I am not talking about sanitation staff alone but wherever the poor people are being suppressed. Wherever people in suit-boot or whether they are from the Aam Aadmi (Party) are not doing their work, I will stand by them," Gandhi said after meeting the sanitation workers of East Delhi MCD office.   

The workers met Gandhi at his residence to thank him a day after he took on the Centre and Delhi government over their strike.   

The Congress vice president, who had joined the MCD workers on strike yesterday at East Delhi MCD office and expressed solidarity with them, said that while he spent only15 minutes with them then, he is ready to dedicate his whole life to fight for their cause.