 "Rakesh Tikait, Mamata Banerjee, Yashwant Sinha")
Exactly three weeks after demonetisation was announced on November 8, 2016, Trinamool Congress (TMC) President and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had addressed a rally in Lucknow, where she had likened the drastic step announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Emergency.
The rally, on November 29, held in the run-up to the 2017 Uttar Pradesh elections, was attended by then ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) ministers and leaders. In fact, then chief minister Akhilesh Yadav had received Mamata at Lucknow airport the previous night, indicating growing closeness between them.
However, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) went on to
