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Modi's expiry date has come: Mamata at united India rally in Kolkata

| @indiablooms | Jan 19, 2019, at 03:35 pm

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said the expiry date of Narendra Modi has come as he attacked the Prime Minister virulently and said he crossed the "laxman rekha" of politics but targetting all Opposition leaders. 

At the icnonic Brigade Parade Ground here where all top leaders of India who are against the BJP assembled Mamata said the government is embroiled in many scams and he will not be spared too. 

She said the Modi governemnt is changing the Constitution of India and destroyed every institution from CBI to RBI. He said Modi turned farmers and people into paupers.

Mamata Banerjee said who will be the Prime Minsiter is not a big question since all leaders are capable but the need of the hour is unity to oust BJP and restore "democracy"

"The acche din (good days) of BJP is not going to come again," she said, urging all to defeat the saffron party across India.

From anti-Modi BJP leader like Shatrughan Sinha to Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)'s Arvind Kejriwal and Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav to DMK chief MK Stalin, all senior leaders of Indian regional and national parties  arrived in Kolkata to take part in the rally and attack Modi. 

Former BJP leader Arun Shourie to Dalit leader like Jignesh Mevani to Janata Dal chief Sharad Yadav and Nationalist Congress Party head Sharad Pawar, top leaders took part in the rally where all gave clarion call for unity to oust the Modi government. 

Ahead of the rally, Kolkata streets were almost smothered by the visages of the West Bengal Chief Minister in the trademark style of the Trinamool Congress supremo.

 

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