Sonia Gandhi addresses the function to celebrate 105th birthday of Shivakumara Swami jee

Congress President Sonia Gandhi attended the 105th birthday celebrations of the highly respected Shivakumara Swami at 'Siddaganga Mutt' at Tumkur in Bangalore, which is considered to be one of India's oldest religious institutions. Sonia Gandhi asserted that education must inculcate respect for the wonderful diversities of our society. It is this diversity that has given us strength. Beneath this diversity lays the continuity and unity of our great nation.

Sonia Gandhi pays respects to Shivakumara Swami Jee in Bangalore

Congress President Sonia Gandhi attended the 105th birthday celebrations of the highly respected seer Shivakumara Swami at 'Siddaganga Mutt' at Tumkur in Bangalore, which is considered to be one of India's oldest religious institutions. Education is, no doubt, about academic learning. It is, no doubt, about acquiring qualifications to ultimately find security and fulfillment in life. But surely there has to be something deeper, something more basic to education if it is to serve as an effective instrument of nation building. And that something is values - moral values” said Sonia Gandhi.

Sonia Gandhi in Bangalore praises Dr. Shivakumara Swamijee’s services

Congress President Sonia Gandhi attended the 105^th birthday celebrations of the highly respected Lingayat seer Shivakumara Swami at 'Siddaganga Mutt' at Tumkur in Bangalore and paid respects to the seer and appreciated the services of the great seer as well the institutions under his Mutt for dedicated service for the society mainly in the field of education.

“Swami jee’s life-mission is an embodiment of these principles” said Sonia Gandhi. “The institutions he had inspired and created, seek not only to provide the young people with a conventional education but places equal emphasis on character building and moral values” added the Congress President.  Sonia Gandhi also said that the students who emerge from these institutions will be well suited to meet the challenges in the adult life and contributing in nation building and a better society.

Sonia Gandhi informed that the right to education has now become a fundamental right. “The primary education has been made a fundamental right. It is for all of us to ensure that this right is asserted and imposed so that all of India’s children from 6 years to 14 years receive free education,” urged the Congress President.

Sonia Gandhi added that nothing exemplifies India’s diversity better than Karnataka itself, where people belonging to different culture, believing in different faith and speaking different languages have lived together and worked for peace and harmony with each other.

Sonia Gandhi also stressed that education must inculcate respect for the wonderful diversities of our society. “It is this diversity that has given us strength. Beneath this diversity lays the continuity and unity of our great nation,” reiterated Sonia Gandhi.

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Sonia Gandhi attends 105th birthday celebrations of Shivakumara Swami in Bangalore

Congress President Sonia Gandhi attended the 105th birthday celebrations of the highly respected seer Shivakumara Swami at 'Siddaganga Mutt' at Tumkur in Bangalore, which is considered to be one of India's oldest religious institutions. “May Dr Shivakumara Swami jee continue to inspire lakhs and lakhs of people across the state, across the country and indeed across the world in the cause of education, social service, philanthropy and spirituality,” said Sonia Gandhi paying respects to the seer in her address.

Sonia Gandhi: Centre keen to help Uttar Pradesh, but state Government not interested

Congress President Sonia Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday jointly attended a big congress rally at Raebareli. Priyanka Gandhi had campaigned for Congress in Amethi and Raebareli the parliament constituencies of her brother Rahul Gandhi and mother Sonia Gandhi.

“We (Congress led government at the Centre) repaired and cleaned the water canals in the region to help the farmers but the state Government did nothing to make the water available. We therefore granted the status of national project to the Sharda Sahayak Nahar,” informed Sonia Gandhi in her address.

“There is no shortage of fertilizers at the Centre. But the system of its distribution is not proper in U.P and the farmers are not able to get the adequate fertilizers. Though we had increased the procurement prices to help the farmers, they could not avail of the benefits because of the wrong policies of the state government” added the Congress President. “To ensure electricity to everybody under Rajiv Gandhi Electrification Scheme, the poles were erected and wiring was done by the Centre but the transformer was not installed by the state Government. There are many such policies which were obstructed by the state government. Despite all this, we constructed the bridge over Ganga, brought a Railway Factory in Raebareli and also started institutions like NIFT to provide technical education to the youth and to make them self reliant,” said Sonia Gandhi.

 

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Sonia Gandhi at the 105th birthday celebrations of Shivakumara Swami at Siddaganga Mutt in Bangalore

Congress President Sonia Gandhi attended the 105th birthday celebrations of the highly respected Lingayat seer Shivakumara Swami at 'Siddaganga mutt' at Tumkur in Bangalore, which is considered to be one of India's oldest religious institutions. “May Dr Shivakumara Swaijee continue to inspire lakhs and lakhs of people across the state, across the country and indeed across the world in the cause of education, social service, philanthropy and spirituality,” said Sonia Gandhi paying respects to the seer.
The Congress President added, “The primary education has been made a fundamental right. It is for all of us to ensure that this right is asserted and imposed so that all of India’s children from 6 to 14 receive free education”.
Striking an emotional chord with the people of Karnataka, Sonia Gandhi asserted that nothing exemplifies India’s diversity better than Karnataka itself, where people belonging to different culture, believing in different faith and speaking different languages have lived and worked for peace and harmony with each other.
Sonia Gandhi also asserted that education must inculcate respect for the wonderful diversities of our society. “It is this diversity that has given us strength. Beneath this diversity lays the continuity and unity of our great nation” stressed Sonia Gandhi.

Sonia Gandhi at Siddaganga Mutt to pay respects to Shivakumara Swami jee in Bangalore

Bangalore: Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi is attending the Guruvandana programme of Siddaganga Mutt in Tumkur. The occasion was to pay respects to Shivakumara Swami jee on his 105th birthday celebrations. “May Dr Shivakumara Swaijee continue to inspire lakhs and lakhs of people across the state, across the country and indeed across the world in the cause of education, social service, philanthropy and spirituality” said Sonia Gandhi.

Rahul Gandhi in Mumbai to rejuvenate Congress

Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi reached Mumbai on Friday on a two-day visit. Rahul Gandhi said that he would tour the state more often to boost the grass root cadre and assist party preparations for the 2014 assembly elections.
Interacting with NSUI delegates from Maharashtra at Bhaidas Hall in suburban Vile Parle, Rahul Gandhi said, "I plan to undertake constituency-wise tours to take a first-hand view of the party's strengths and weaknesses. I will come more often here."
He also held a meeting with Youth Congress elected representatives. Rahul Gandhi called for the need to have zero tolerance to corruption and said that even those from the Congress should not be spared.
Rahul Gandhi also felicitated youth Congress activists who had won the recent local bodies election. He asked the youth Congress activists to identify their area of work and compile it on the youth Congress website. "The work will be evaluated and marks would be given. Good and meritorious workers will get enough chance to prove their mettle in politics, added the congress General Secretary.

Rahul Gandhi visits drought-hit Satara in Maharashtra

Mumbai: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi visited various places in the drought-hit Satara district in Maharashtra Saturday morning. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and other senior ministers were also along with him.
Rahul Gandhi visited the Zalshi Talao, which is one of the water sources in the district. He is also scheduled to go to nearby Bijwadi to take a look at state government sponsored employment guarantee schemes being implemented there among the drought-affected people of Satara and also will visit the Pangari fodder depot in the district which supplies fodder to a large cattle population in the region.

Mayawati kept Bundelkhand underdeveloped: Rahul Gandhi

Blaming BSP supremo Mayawati for ignoring the issues of drought-hit Bundelkhand and also for not undertaking development in that region, Congress (I) General Secretary Rahul Gandhi had said that she deliberately neglected this part of the state.  “She neglected to undertake development activities in Bundelkhand despite a special package of Rs 8,000 crores was approved by Congress (I)-led UPA government at the center”, said Rahul Gandhi while campaigning for Congress in Uttar Pradesh. 

“She has been taking the excuse of lack of funds for the development.  But the Comptroller and Auditor General (GAC) report has exposed her on this count.  The report has pointed that state government could not even utilized 10% of the special package sanctioned by Center for integrated development of Bundelkhand. This region is rich in mineral resources”, said Rahul Gandhi.

Rahul Gandhi continued, “For instance while the state’s mining department outlay for 2010-11 was only Rs 16 crore it generated revenue of Rs 838 crore. This clearly shows that Mayawati has been exploiting this region and keeping it underdeveloped”. 

However, to bring Bundelkhand at par with other regions of the state, Rahul Gandhi said Congress (I) in its manifesto has promised development for the region.

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