Participants and leaders at the rally spoke about how a coalition government, and not one-party rule, will strengthen India and its democracy
By Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta
New Delhi: Nine months after the opposition INDIA alliance started taking shape, its top leaders come together in the capital’s historic Ramlila Maidan on Sunday (March 31) to protest attacks on democracy. The rally drew thousands of people, despite the fact that the Delhi Police gave only conditional permission to the Aam Aadmi Party, the primary organiser of the rally. Delhi Police barred a procession and disallowed any use of tractors and trollers.
Slogans were raised likening Prime Minister Narendra Modi to an autocrat and his regime as autocracy; even in one-on-one conversations, participants at the rally seemed convinced that Modi is an autocrat and the fight is not merely to defeat the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls but a larger fight to save democracy.
Participants and leaders at the rally spoke about how a coalition government, and not one-party rule, will strengthen India and its democracy.
It is the first significant INDIA rally after the Patna show of strength in winter. Several INDIA leaders did come together for a public meeting in Mumbai on March 17, but that was more marking the end of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi. This is the first such gathering after the arrest of two INDIA chief ministers, Hemant Soren and Arvind Kejriwal.
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