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The leaders present underlined the need to draw inspiration from the Hindu epic Ramayanas depiction of triumph of Lord Rama despite being short on resources compared to his rival Ravana to end the run of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
While the arrests of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren acted as a catalyst for the rally which witnessed the participation of 17 parties it also saw Kejriwals wife Sunita reading out election guarantees, and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra placing demands including the immediate release of the arrested leaders and a Supreme Court monitored probe into the scrapped electoral bonds scheme...
The organiser Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) went the extra mile, including taking down a poster showing Kejriwal behind bars from the front of the dais minutes before the event began, to assuage Congresss concerns about the rally being just about Kejriwal and Soren and not about Indias imperilled democracy and constitution...
While Congress leader Rahul Gandhi outlined the potential threats that the BJP poses to the Indian Constitution, Priyanka invoked the values of Lord Rama, which, she said, were needed as a reminder to those who call themselves Rambhakts(devotees)..
OBrien, incidentally, was seated next to general secretaries of the CPI and CPI(M) D. Raja and Sitaram Yechury, respectively, on the stage that had a large banner inscribed with the slogan Tanashahi hatao, loktantra bachao(get rid of dictatorship, save democracy), as the backdrop, apart from a slideshow showing all the prominent leaders of the INDIA bloc..
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