Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said here Saturday that democracy is in danger in the BJP regime, and once again the Congress will have to stand up to save it. He was speaking at the concluding function of the first phase of the Congress's 'Jan Sangharsh Yatra' in Western Maharashtra. "Maharashtra played a key role in the freedom struggle...freedom fighters from the rest of the country received energy from Maharashtra," Azad said.

"The freedom struggle of the Congress then was to achieve a democratic rule in the country but today the same democracy, for which Lokmanya Tilak, Mahatma Gandhi, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar and thousands of freedom fighters gave their lives, is in danger and today the Congress has to rise up to save our democracy from a dictatorship," he said.