Kolkata, Jan 19 (IBNS): Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said she had seen many leaders in India but never one as dictatorial as Narendra Modi.
"I have seen many leaders in India, but never someone like Hitler or Mussolini (reference to Modi), said Mamata at the Brigade Ground in Kolkata where she hosted a mega rally of more than 20 opposition parties.
"Many people say Indira Gandhi was dictatorial and refer to the Emergency," she said. "I find the situation today worse."
Being the host, Mamata was the final speaker of the day and she said the voter shouldn't be worried about who would be Prime Minister.
"We will decide together after the elections," she said, adding that the Modi government in Delhi has crossed its expiry date.
Saying that all the leaders present would be present at similar meetings in Andhra Pradesh capital Amravati and Delhi, which the respective chief ministers have already announced to organise, Mamata said: "If Farooq Abdullahji can organise one in Jammu and Kashmir, we will go. We will also go to Assam if something is organised there."
She slammed the Modi government for destroying the reputation of institutions such as the CBI and the RBI.
Commenting on the BJP's demand for a rath yatra in West Bengal, Mamata said: "We will not let riots happen in the state in the name of rath yatra."
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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