Leaders of the INDIA bloc meet in Mumbai’s Shivaji Park

Mumbai:

A day after Congress chief Rahul Gandhi ended his 63-day-long Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Mumbai, members of the opposition bloc INDIA additionally met within the metropolis at this time, the place they harassed on the necessity for a “national Mahagathbandhan”. The yatra had began from violence-hit Manipur.

“We are not fighting against a person or a party. There is a word ‘Shakti’ in Hinduism. We are fighting against that Shakti,” Rahul Gandhi stated.

Targeting the BJP-led Centre for its alleged use of central companies and EVMs (digital voting machines) in opposition to the opposition, he stated the ruling social gathering will not be capable to win the Lok Sabha elections with out “EVMs, ED (Enforcement Directorate) and CBI”.

The occasion at Mumbai’s Shivaji Park helmed by Rahul Gandhi noticed a number of Opposition leaders in attendance, together with Tejashwi Yadav, MK Stalin, Mallikarjun Kharge, Sharad Pawar, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Uddhav Thackeray, and Mehbooba Mufti.

“Election dates have been announced… We have all come to Mumbai today. Rahul Gandhi had sent an invitation,” Tejashwi Yadav stated.

The Opposition rally at Shivaji Park is being billed because the biggest-ever present of energy of the INDIA bloc, within the presence of all the Gandhi household, to launch the bloc’s marketing campaign for the Lok Sabha elections.

Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray, citing presidential elections in Russia, stated, “Putin is contesting an election in Russia but no one is in front of him. They (the BJP) want to create a similar situation here”.

Today was the ultimate day of the Russian presidential election that’s assured to cement Vladimir Putin’s rule.

Addressing the gathering, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti stated, “The BJP speaks of winning more than 400 Lok Sabha seats in order to change the Constitution… People in the BJP are afraid of Gandhi in Rahul Gandhi’s name.”

Earlier at this time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had taken a swipe on the Congress whereas campaigning for the BJP in Andhra Pradesh. PM Modi, alluding to the INDIA bloc’s assembly in Mumbai, stated the Congress’s agenda is to “use and throw” its companions.

“In the NDA (National Democratic Alliance), we take everyone along, but on the other hand the Congress party’s only agenda is to use and throw allies. Today, the Congress had to make the INDIA bloc out of compulsion, but their thinking is that only,” PM Modi stated.

When his flip got here to talk at Shivaji Parj, the Rashtriya Janaya Dal’s Tejashwi Yadav stated the INDIA bloc’s combat will not be in opposition to PM Modi or Home Minister Amit Shah personally, however in opposition to the “ideology of hate.”

Sharad Pawar, who now heads the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar), stated Mahatma Gandhi gave the ‘Quit India’ name from Mumbai, and so INDIA bloc’s leaders ought to do the identical from Mumbai to oust the BJP from energy.

Uddhav Thackeray launched a direct assault, “When people unite, dictatorship ends.”

Voting for the Lok Sabha elections will start on April 19 and finish on June 1; counting is on June 4.