Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan, who has been campaigning for the Trinamul Congress in the state polls, on Sunday took part in a road show for the party’s Jorasanko candidate, Vivek Gupta. Jorasanko votes on April 29. Gupta is up against the BJP’s Meena Devi Purohit and Ajmal Khan of the Sanyukta Morcha. The 500-strong procession, led by Gupta and Bachchan, started from College Square around 4.30pm and passed through Vivekananda Road and Amherst Street. Hundreds of people flocked to their balconies to see Bachchan, who waved at them.

“I want to say do not hijack my religion from me. Do not. Never. Do not hijack my democracy and my democratic right from me. And when I say, me, I represent all the people. And that is why I’m here because Mamata Banerjee is fighting, struggling, a single lady, to preserve democratic rights of every individual of Bengal,” Bachchan had said at a news meet at the Trinamul headquarters on April 5.