The rally started from College Square at 1 PM and after covering different streets of Kolkata, reached Rani Rasmoni Road (Esplanade) where participants were addressed by Sri Ghosh and Sardar Bagga. People from different parts of West Bengal joined the rally. The significant participation of women became a hallmark of the rally.
Sardar Bagga, in his speech, said he was fortunate enough to come to the land of Netaji, Shyamaprasad and Gopal Mukhopadhyay for the first time. Then he strongly attacked the State govt. for making distortion in history books and terming the freedom fighters as terrorist. He appealed all Hindus to join nationalist organization like Hindu Samhati. He assured the crowed that he will come back whenever he is being called upon.
Sri Tapan Ghosh in his speech attacked the secular forces as hypocrite. He warned the crowed that after squeezing out Congress, CP(I)M and Trina Mool Congress (TMC), Muslims have now inclined to BJP to use it to their benefit. He criticized the West Bengal State BJP leadership for ignoring the events related to its ideological founder Dr. Shayama Prasad Mukherjee in quest of Muslim votes. He also justified the fight of Israel against Hamas as their right to defend their citizen and territory.