My February 27 Patna rally will shake government, says Kanhaiya Kumar

PATNA: CPI functionary and former JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on Saturday claimed that his February 27 rally at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan, to be organised under the banner of ‘NPR-NRC-CAA Virodhi Morcha’, would shake the Centre and state government and compel them to rethink on implementation of NPR and CAA.
“My rally is based on morality and it has nothing to do with politics,” Kanhaiya told reporters here, adding that leaders of all non-NDA parties will attend the rally. “We may have different political ideologies, but we will come together in our fight to protect the Constitution,” Kanhaiya said.
He added that the rally at Gandhi Maidan will begin at 10am. “It will be addressed by Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad, Mahatma Gandhi’s great grandson Tushar Gandhi, actor Swara Bhaskar, social activist Yogendra Yadav, dalit leader Jignesh Mevani, former IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan, JNU Students’ Union president Aishe Ghosh, Congress functionary Sadaf Jafar, Rohith Vemula’s mother Radhika Vemula, Najeeb Ahmad’s mother Fatima Nafees, Congress leader Alka Lamba, social activist Medha Patkar, actor Sushant Singh, film director Anurag Kashyap and student representatives from Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi University and Patna University,” Kanhaiya said.
The CPI leader, who covered all 38 districts in the state as part of his ‘Jan Gan Man Yatra’, appealed to people to come in large numbers at Gandhi Maidan on February 27 to attend the rally and make it a success.
Asked about repeated attacks on his convoy at different places during his yatra, Kanhaiya said, “Of the 38 districts I covered, my convoy was attacked only at nine places.”
Congress’s Kadwa MLA Shakil Ahmad Khan, who also addressed media persons, condemned AIMIM leader Waris Pathan’s statement that 15 crore people from minority community could dominate 100 crore people from the majority community in the country.