Opposition rally HIGHLIGHTS: BJP's 'achhe din' over, says Mamata Banerjee

Tejashwi Yadav accused Modi of being a factory, manufacturer and distributor or lies

1:04 PM

"Naya Bharat banayenge, BJP ko bhagayenge," says Abhishek Singhvi. 

1:02 PM

1:02 PM

Former MP Sharad Yadav says: "Not one institution is left, which has not been destroyed by the current govt at Centre".

12:53 PM

"World's most unethical alliance was BJP's alliance with PDP in Jammu and Kashmir," says Abhishek Singhvi of Congress.

12:52 PM

12:45 PM

"There is one man who united all of us. That man is Narendra Modi": Arun Shourie

 

"There's no other government which has lied as much as this government did," says Arun Shourie.

 

"No other government has made the lunatic decision of demonetisation. GST has been implemented poorly," said Arun Shourie.

 

"There is one man who united all of us. That man is Narendra Modi," he said.

12:44 PM

"While uniting, we will fight the elections. They said 'Sabka saath, Sabka vikaas.' They took 'sabka saath,' but did 'sabka vinaash'," said Yashwant Sinha.

12:44 PM

"Modi is not an issue, issues are the issue": Yashwant Sinha at Kolkata rally

 

"Why are we all here at this rally? While I left BJP, but I know what they will say after this rally. They will say, we collected here to remove one man: the country's PM. But I want to say here, that we are here against their thinking. Because we know that nowadays there is no democratic institution left that they haven't destroyed. To protect democracy, we are gathered here. In front of us, issues are the issue, Modi is not an issue."

12:41 PM

"Field only one candidate from the Opposition against one BJP candidate," says Arun Shourie, former BJP leader.

12:39 PM

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Former Union Minister Arun Shourie says: "No other government has said so many lies. Never before were institutions undermined in this manner".

12:34 PM

'Mahagathbandhan' will ensure defeat of BJP: Jignesh Mevani 

 

Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani on Saturday said the coming together of so many opposition leaders at TMC's opposition rally gives a message for change in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

 

"The country is going through an unprecedented crisis with the exploitation of the poor, minorities and dalits in the four-and-half-year rule of the BJP," the independent MLA from Gujarat said.

 

He also expressed hope that when the 'Mahagathbandhan' forms government at the Centre, it will ensure the upholding of the Constitution, and the country will become a true socialist republic.

 

Leaders of all the opposition parties, except the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the CPI(M)-led Left Front, are taking part in the rally.

12:30 PM

"We have gathered here to protect democracy... Modi is not the issue, issues are the issue. Don't make Modi the issue," Yashwant Sinha says while addressing a rally in Kolkata's Brigade Parade Ground.

12:28 PM

Former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha says: "This is not about removing one man from power. We have come together to defeat an ideology."

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