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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