United India  

The Congress had jumped to derive mileage out of the spurious 'Save Democracy' campaign by Artist United India, and tweeted that communities across were standing up against what it called the BJP government's misuse of power, hate politics and polarisation

Here is how the southern states of India - Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana celebrated the 70th Republic Day with patriotic fervour

The United India rally is being seen as merely a show of strength by Mamata Banerjee. She nurses prime ministerial ambitions and is trying to emerge as the natural choice for the regional parties.

Leaders of 23 political parties gathered in West Bengal showing their strength to fight the next Lok Sabha elections against NDA. DMK president Stalin too took part, but did not speak a word on Rahul Gandhi as the PM candidate.
 

However, another leader of the TRS, Jithendra, said to MyNation that these decisions are taken at the top, and he wouldn't like to speculate on the reasons
 

While there are many political parties that want to keep the option of doing business with Modi open, the more opposition parties endorse Mamata Banerjee's leadership, the more Congress president Rahul Gandhi's ambition of becoming Prime Minister takes a hit