Mamata, Akhilesh, Sharad Yadav at Lalu's mega 'BJP bhagao' rally

August 27, 2017 15:25

In a display of opposition unity against the Bharatiya Janata Party, political heavyweights, including West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, shared a platform at Lalu Prasad's mega rally in Patna today.

Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad has already said the 'BJP bhagao desh bachao' rally would herald the decline of the BJP-led NDA in the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

Rebel Janata Dal-United leader Sharad Yadav, who is staring at an expulsion from the party for defying orders of not to attend the rally, was greeted warmly by Prasad who embraced him on the dais.

Yadav was accompanied by suspended JD-U Rajya Sabha MP Ali Anwar.

JD-U leader K C Tyagi, in a letter to Yadav, had asked him to skip the rally and if he attends it would mean that he has quit the party voluntarily.

Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and Congress general secretary C P Joshi were present at the rally.

The RJD chief and his wife Rabri Devi greeted Trinamool supremo Banerjee and their son Tejaswi Yadav touched her feet.

Communist Party of India's general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy and secretary D Raja were present on the dais while Jharkhand Mukti Morcha chief and former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, and Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik president Babulal Marandi were attended the rally.

Nationalist Congress Party leader and MP Tariq Anwar was also present.

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