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New Delhi: Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said that the INDIA alliances Loktantra Bachao, which is scheduled to be held on Sunday at Delhis Ramlila Maidan, will not be centred around any individual but focus on a number of issues, particularly saving Indias democracy and the Constitution.o)..
Ramesh, who is also Congress general secretary and communication in-charge, said that another issue on which the rally is being held includes the centres misuse of agencies such as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against the opposition parties in which many ministers, including a sitting chief minister Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has been arrested and put behind bars..
Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi minister Gopal Rai claimed on Friday that the rally, which will begin at 10 am on Sunday, is being held in support of Kejriwal, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on March 31 in the alleged excise policy scam..
Delhi Congress President Arvind Singh Lovely said that the rally is being organised against the arrests made by the BJP-ruled central government whether it was Hemant Soren in Jharkhand or Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi, just ahead of the elections as they (BJP) do not have a level playing field..
The leaders who are to address the rally will include Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and leader Rahul Gandhi, TMC MP Derek OBrien, Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) chief Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray of the Shiv Sena (UBT), Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party, Tejaswi Yadav of the Rahstriya Janata Dal, Sitaram Yechury of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), D Raja of the Communist Party of India, Farooq Abdullah of the J&K National Conference, Mehbooba Mufti of the J&K Peoples democratic front, Champai Soren of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Tiruchi Siva of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Deepankar Bhattacharya of the Communist Party of India (MarxistLeninist) Liberation, G. Devarajan of the All India Forward Bloc and Sunil Singh of the Lok Dal..
