INDIA bloc’s first rally in Bhopal referred to as off; CM Chouhan cites ‘public anger’ over ‘Sanatana’ remarks

By Express News Service

BHOPAL: The much-awaited first public rally of the opposition INDIA bloc, slated to be held within the capital of poll-bound Madhya Pradesh within the first week of October, is cancelled, state Congress president Kamal Nath knowledgeable journalists in Bhopal on Saturday. “It is not going to happen. It has been cancelled,” Nath informed reporters on Saturday when requested in regards to the rally.

A short time in the past, whereas addressing a press convention in regards to the celebration’s 15-days-long Jan Akrosh Yatras (beginning on September 19), the celebration’s nationwide basic secretary in-charge for the poll-bound state, Randeep Singh Surjewala, had mentioned that it was but to be determined whether or not the primary public rally of the INDIA bloc can be held in Bhopal or some other place.

“It is still being discussed between Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge and leaders of other parties in the alliance,” he had mentioned.

Earlier this week, the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance, which incorporates the Congress and greater than 25 different events against the Bharatiya Janata Party, had mentioned it will maintain a rally in Bhopal.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday claimed that the opposition rally has been cancelled out of worry of the rising public ire over the alliance leaders’ anti-Sanatan Dharma remarks.

“People across the country are angry over the anti-Sanatan Dharma remarks of the alliance’s leaders. People in MP are hurt and angry over the equating of Sanatan Dharma with dengue, malaria and corona,” he mentioned.

Earlier on the press meet, talking on the row over remarks of the DMK leaders and the PM’s scathing assault on the opposition over it, Kamal Nath mentioned, “India is a country of Sanatan Dharma, but has the BJP become an agency of a particular religion? By raking up this issue, the BJP wants to divert the public attention from basic and real issues, just like it did in 2019 general elections through diversionary tactics of nationalism and surgical strikes.”

Recently, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leaders Udhayanidhi Stalin and A Raja had claimed Sanatan Dharma had sown divisions in society and have to be eradicated on the strains of illnesses like dengue, malaria and coronavirus.

BHOPAL: The much-awaited first public rally of the opposition INDIA bloc, slated to be held within the capital of poll-bound Madhya Pradesh within the first week of October, is cancelled, state Congress president Kamal Nath knowledgeable journalists in Bhopal on Saturday. “It is not going to happen. It has been cancelled,” Nath informed reporters on Saturday when requested in regards to the rally.

A short time in the past, whereas addressing a press convention in regards to the celebration’s 15-days-long Jan Akrosh Yatras (beginning on September 19), the celebration’s nationwide basic secretary in-charge for the poll-bound state, Randeep Singh Surjewala, had mentioned that it was but to be determined whether or not the primary public rally of the INDIA bloc can be held in Bhopal or some other place.

“It is still being discussed between Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge and leaders of other parties in the alliance,” he had mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Earlier this week, the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance, which incorporates the Congress and greater than 25 different events against the Bharatiya Janata Party, had mentioned it will maintain a rally in Bhopal.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday claimed that the opposition rally has been cancelled out of worry of the rising public ire over the alliance leaders’ anti-Sanatan Dharma remarks.

“People across the country are angry over the anti-Sanatan Dharma remarks of the alliance’s leaders. People in MP are hurt and angry over the equating of Sanatan Dharma with dengue, malaria and corona,” he mentioned.

Earlier on the press meet, talking on the row over remarks of the DMK leaders and the PM’s scathing assault on the opposition over it, Kamal Nath mentioned, “India is a country of Sanatan Dharma, but has the BJP become an agency of a particular religion? By raking up this issue, the BJP wants to divert the public attention from basic and real issues, just like it did in 2019 general elections through diversionary tactics of nationalism and surgical strikes.”

Recently, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leaders Udhayanidhi Stalin and A Raja had claimed Sanatan Dharma had sown divisions in society and have to be eradicated on the strains of illnesses like dengue, malaria and coronavirus.