Mumbai, March 18 -- Hours after its key campaigner Rahul Gandhi wrapped up his 6,700-kilometer Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra that took him to 16 States and 110 districts across the country, the INDIA Bloc on Sunday flexed its muscle at a massive public rally at the Shivaji Park with a clarion call to the people to "protect" the Constitution, "defeat" the divisive forces and the centralised BJP leadership, "whose strength lies in the EVM machines" in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.

Coming as it did a day after the Election Commission of India announced a seven-phase schedule for the Lok Sabha polls, the Congress-led Opposition could not have chosen more appropriate occasion to sound poll bugle against the mighty ruling Narendra Modi-led BJP - w...