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Raipur (Chhattisgarh) [India], February 28 (ANI): The Congress and the Left parties are set to hold a massive election rally in West Bengal today, said Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Sunday before he left for the state ahead of the assembly elections set to take place next month.
Fact Check: Two-year-old Left Front rally in Kolkata shared as Feb 28 gathering
This image of a sea of people is going viral on social media with the claim that is from Sunday’s joint rally of Left Front and Congress in Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Ground ahead of the 2021 Bengal assembly elections. India Today s AFWA probes the truth.
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The photo claimed to be from the Congress-Left-ISF rally in Kolkata.
In the run-up to assembly elections in Bengal, the Left Front, along with its allies Congress and the newly formed Indian Secular Front, organised a rally at Kolkata’s
Brigade Parade Groundon Sunday in a massive show of strength against the Trinamool Congress and BJP.
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday said the grand alliance of the Left-Congress and other secular forces will defeat both the TMC and the BJP in the West Bengal assembly elections.
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Synopsis Both the TMC and the BJP are two sides of the same coin. Their agenda is to divide people on communal lines and rule the masses. We have seen how TMC leaders are joining the BJP lock, stock and barrel. Except for the chief minister and some of her leaders, the rest have switched over to the BJP. Both the TMC and the BJP now stand unmasked, he said. Minorities, backwards, scheduled castes and tribes are being divided on caste and communal lines practised by both the forces, he said.