INDIA bloc leaders sound Lok Sabha poll bugle at Jan Vishwas rally

Also present at the rally was M.V. Shreyams Kumar, former Rajya Sabha member and RJD’s Kerala unit chief, who had flown in from the southern state.

Those who addressed the rally earlier included Samajwadi Party president and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, who shared a photo on X of himself seated with Tejashwi Yadav and Rahul Gandhi captioned, “great thrones are shaken when enthusiastic youngsters come together (jab joshile naujawan mil jaate hain, bade bade takht hil jaate hain)”.

In his brief speech, Yadav, who has reached a seat-sharing agreement with the Congress in his state, said, “UP and Bihar together have 120 seats. If we ensure the BJP’s rout in these two states, the party will not be able to form the government at the Centre.”

Left leaders like Sitaram Yechury, D. Raja and Dipankar Bhattacharya, general-secretaries of CPI(M), CPI and CPI(ML) respectively, denounced the Narendra Modi government’s policies, alleging these were only benefiting big businesses, even as they praised Tejashwi Yadav’s emphasis on job creation.