Mahagathbandhan will ensure BJP’s defeat: Jignesh Mevani

Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani speaks at the Trinamool Congress rally in Kolkata on January 19, 2019. Photo: Twitter/@AITCofficial

Dalit leader and independent MLA from Gujarat Jignesh Mevani on January 19 said the coming together of so many opposition leaders at Trinamool Congress-sponsored Opposition rally gives a message for change in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

The Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) will ensure the defeat of the RSS and the BJP, Mr. Mevani said, addressing the massive Opposition rally at Brigade Parade Grounds in Kolkata.

“The country is going through an unprecedented crisis with the exploitation of the poor, minorities and Dalits in the four-and-half-year rule of the BJP,” he said.

He also expressed hope that when the

Mahagathbandhan forms government at the Centre, it will ensure the upholding of the Constitution, and the country will become a true socialist republic.

Leaders of all Opposition parties, except the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the CPI(M)-led Left Front, took part in the rally.