Ranchi, 19 April (HS). Preparations are in the final stages for the Ulgulan Rally to be held on April 21 at Prabhat Tara Ground in Ranchi. Before the rally, the entire Ranchi has been covered with posters and banners. Big posters and hoardings have been put up in Ranchi. A large photograph of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and his wife Kalpana Soren has been placed in the poster. The photo of the freedom fighters of Jharkhand has been placed at the top of the poster. Some posters have photos of Shibu Soren and Chief Minister Champai Soren.
It is being said that due to election busyness many stalwarts of South India will not be able to attend the Maharally. However, he has informed the JMM leadership that he will support the issues on which the Maharally is being organized and the future strategy that will be made.
JMM's central spokesperson Manoj Pandey said that the mega rally to be held on April 21 is not an ordinary or election mega rally, but it is a mega rally to free the country from dictatorship, save the Constitution and give voice to the aspirations of the people of Jharkhand. He said that the common voice of opposition leaders across the country will be raised from Prabhat Tara Maidan. There are many issues against which there will be an uproar, including saving the Constitution, BJP's policy of dividing the society, changes in the Forest Rights Act, MSP to farmers, inflation, unemployment etc.
Manoj said that Sunita Kejriwal and Kalpana Soren will tell from the same platform how a conspiracy was hatched and her husband was put in jail just because he did not bow down before a dictator.
The mega rally included Punjab CM and AAP leader Bhagwant Singh Mann, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita Kejriwal, AAP's Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh, Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge, former president Rahul Gandhi, Shiv Sena's Priyanka Chaturvedi, Uttar Pradesh's Former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, former Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, National Conference's Farooq Abdullah, CPI(ML)'s Dipankar Bhattacharya and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as representatives of Derek O'Brien, RJD in Rajya Sabha. Many leaders including member Manoj Jha will participate. Chief Minister and JMM Central Vice President Champai Soren, JMM, Congress and RJD ministers in the Jharkhand government will also be present in the Ulgulan Maharally.