Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, its mouthpiece Saamna wrote why coming together of 22 opposition parties in opposition's United India rally scared PM Modi.
"PM Modi inaugurated a howitzer while the opposition parties were holding United India Rally in Kolkata. So why did Modi's canon tremble by coming together of 22 opposition parties? The government should not be overconfident about winning the upcoming elections as people will decide its fate," wrote Saamna.
The first glimpse of the proposed mahagathbandhan was witnessed at Mamata Banerjee’s ‘United India’ rally in Kolkata on Saturday as 25 seasoned leaders from over 20 political parties formally stitched a formal alliance with a common goal of defeating the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
The opposition spearheaded by Rahul Gandhi's Congress has stepped up its ante against the ruling BJP government after registering a hattrick of wins in the recently held state assembly elections in the Hindi heartland of Madhya Pradesh, Rjashtan and Chatisgarh. While agreeing to tackle the question of the Opposition’s prime ministerial face after the election results, leader after leader targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP over “rising intolerance”, demonetisation, GST and alleged corruption in the Rafale deal.