In images, Left leaders hold rally in Kolkata with effigy of PM Modi as Ravana

Left party activists carry an effigy of PM Modi as Ravana at Brigade Ground in Kolkata | Ashok Nath Dey/ThePrint

We have to defeat ‘chowkidar’ Modi in the next elections, said Sitaram Yechury at the rally.

“The Centre, which has looted the country for the past five years, is now doling out sops ahead of the elections,” CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said at the Left Front rally at Brigade Ground in Kolkata | Ashok Nath Dey

Left Front chairman Biman Bose (L) with Yechury and other leaders at the rally | Ashok Nath Dey

Yechury also said the “saffron party and the Mamata Banerjee-led party are two sides of the same coin” | Ashok Nath Dey

-With PTI inputs