In a show of solidarity with Kejriwal, Hemant Soren, INDIA bloc demands their immediate release
Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of trying to win the general elections through "match-fixing".
Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of trying to win the general elections through "match-fixing".
Free electricity for poor, mohalla clinics in every village and full statehood for Delhi were among the six guarantees Kejriwal gave from jail.
Former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren's wife Kalpana Soren is also likely to address the rally.
The Delhi police on Friday granted permission for holding the rally at the Ramlila Maidan.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, (SKM), which gave the call for the Mahapanchayat, urged the farmers to convert the ongoing farmers’ and workers’ struggle into a big people’s movement to protect their livelihood from corporate.
The police have requested commuters to avoid or bypass the said roads and utilise public transportation, especially the Delhi Metro services.
Delhi police on Sunday dismissed the reports of detention of Congress workers and said party workers were dropped off at the designated protest sites and no one was detained.
Congress hopes that lakhs of people will attend the protest rally, besides party workers from the neighbouring states of Delhi and party leaders from all over India.
The court has appointed senior advocates Sanjay Hegde and Sadhna Ramchandran and former bureaucrat Wajahat Habibullah to talk to the protesters and find an alternative protest location.
'We didn't give step-motherly treatment and worked for everyone, regardless of political ideologies and worked for everyone in the last 5 years,' he said.
