WB-TMC-TEA-PARTY


PTI | Kolkata | Updated: 17-01-2019 22:37 IST | Created: 17-01-2019 22:37 IST
WB-TMC-TEA-PARTY

The Trinamool Congress

leadership has decided to organise a tea party meet for the

opposition leaders who will be attending the January 19 rally.

"After the meeting there will be a tea party for

opposition leaders. We will have tea and will talk to

opposition leaders," TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief

Minister Mamata Banerjee said Thursday.

In a show of strength ahead of the national polls,

Banerjee has called for a massive rally in Kolkata on January

19, which is likely to see participation of lakhs of her

supporters. Leaders of all major opposition parties have been

invited to the rally to be held at the Brigade Parade ground

in the heart of the city.

Chief Ministers Arvind Kejriwal, H Kumaraswamy, N

Chandra Babu Naidu, former prime minister H D Devegowda,

former chief ministers Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah and

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, DMK's M K Stalin, besides dissident

BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha are among those billed to attend the

mega rally.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Singh Yadav, BSP

general secretary Satish Chandra Mishra, NCP leader Sharad

Pawar, RLD's Chaudhury Ajit Singh, Former Union ministers

Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie, Patidar leader Hardik Patel,

Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani and Babulal Marandi of the

Jharkhand Vikas Morcha would also be present on the stage

alongside the TMC supremo.

Leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun

Kharge will also take part in the rally on behalf of Congress.

Former Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Gegong Apang, who had

recently quit BJP, would also attend the rally.

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