Kolkata: Trinamool Congress Supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee led the massive anti-BJP rally at the Brigade Parade Grounds in Kolkata which was jam-packed with people.
Top political leaders from ‘Kashmir to Kanyakumari’ have arrived in Kolkata to attend the ‘United India’ anti-BJP rally and present a united face of the Opposition ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.
The rally will also see former Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minister from the Vajpayee cabinet, Arun Shourie and BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha.
Shatrughan Sinha who has been an ardent critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over various issues, said, “Mamataji is an expert, a national leader… She is a very tactful and experienced leader… Unki baaton mein bohot dum hai (There is a lot of weight in her words). We should take her words seriously. People still have time to take a look at the performances and promises, and bridge that enormous gap… It shouldn’t be so that by the time we realise, it gets too late.”
Former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav, President of the Nationalist Congress Party Sharad Pawar, former prime minister and Janata Dal (Secular) Supremo H D Devegowda, Delhi Chief Minister Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief Chandrababu Naidu, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) President M K Stalin, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejaswi Yadav, National Conference Supremo Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Satish Misra, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh and leader Jayant Chowdhury, Opposition leader in Mizoram Lalduwahawma, former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Gegong Apang, former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, Gujarat independent MLA and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani and Patidar quota agitation leader Hardik Patel were all present at the rally.
