BJP today staged a rally in the national capital to mount pressure on the UPA over spiralling prices of essential commodities. <br/><br/>Braving the sizzling weather, thousands of BJP activists joined the public meeting and the march to Parliament, the first big show of strength after Nitin Gadkari took over as party chief in December last year. <br/><br/>The BJP top brass, led by Gadkari and party veteran L K Advani, attacked the government for rising prices of items like rice, sugar, pulses, petrol, diesel and fertiliser. They also accused the government of following lopsided economic policies. <br/><br/> Gadkari, who was chosen by the Sangh fountainhead RSS to lead a faction-ridden BJP, seems to have managed to take all camps within the party together for this rally which had been made a prestige issue by him. Senior BJP leaders, including Leader of Opposition in Lok<br/><br/>Sabha Sushma Swaraj, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, former party presidents Rajnath Singh, Murli Manohar Joshi and M Venkaiah Naidu, as well Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Minister of BJP-ruled states attended the public meeting. Due to rally, there was traffic chaos in central Delhi as vehicles crawled and commuters faced a harrowing time.<br/><br/>The BJP President Mr Nitin Gadkari fainted due to sizzling weather while moving towards Parliament to court arrest. Reports say top BJP leaders including L.K. Advani Murli Manohar Joshi and Arun Jaitely also got into their cars and left.