Replace Akali-BJP Government with Congress: Sonia Gandhi

Congress president Sonia Gandhi while launching the Congress campaign in the poll bound Punjab attacked the SAD-BJP government in Punjab for blocking development of the state. The UPA Chairperson while addressing a public rally in Kapurthala urged the people to throw out the present government and replace the anti-poor government with a Congress Government.

Sonia Gandhi started her speech paying tribute to the holy town of Sultanpur Lodhi  where Guru Nanak Dev spent about 14 years of his life and attained enlightenment.  Sonia Gandhi said that the SAD-BJP government created a big hindrance in the development of the state as it had not let Central schemes to get implemented here.

The Congress President said that the Centre had provided funds of several thousand crores to the SAD-BJP government but it did not allow these funds to reach to the common man. Giving figures, she said the Centre provided Rs 5,000 crore under the MGNREGA scheme, but the SAD-BJP government utilised only Rs 526 crore. Had the Centre not provided it the money, the SAD-BJP government would have to put an end to its atta-dal scheme, added Sonia Gandhi.

Attacking the SAD-BJP government time and again in her address, Sonia Gandhi alleged it had not cared even a bit for the poor. All sections of the society, including farmers and industrialists, had been fed up with the SAD-BJP government, said Sonia Gandhi.

Whatever development the state had seen since Independence was during the Congress regimes only, claimed Sonia Gandhi.

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Sonia Gandhi: Non-Congress rule in the past 22 years dragged UP backward

Congress President and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi lashed out at the non-Congress parties on Sunday for the lack of development in Uttar Pradesh in the past two decades.

Addressing an election rally with RLD Chief Ajit Singh in Aligarh, Sonia Gandhi alleged the famous lock industry of Aligarh had suffered a lot in the past two decades.

This all happened due to failure of the successive non-Congress governments to develop infrastructural facilities like roads and power in the state, the Congress President said. The main focus of the Congress-RLD combine was to give a fillip to development projects in the state, said Sonia Gandhi.

“The message which the city sends reaches different corners of the world. You all should support the Congress-RLD alliance,” urged the UPA chairperson.

“There are some parties which are focused on spreading ill-will among different sections and are responsible for weakening the nation,” Sonia Gandhi said.

Sonia Gandhi added that the basic idea behind setting up of the Sachar Committee was to understand how the community could be helped. She said the Congress was determined to implement the recommendations of the Sachar Committee which when into the social, economic and educational status of Muslims.

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BJP fools the people: Sonia Gandhi says in Uttarakhand

Congress President Sonia Gandhi while launching the campaign for Congress in Uttarakhand lambasted the BJP for fooling the people of Uttarakhand. Sonia Gandhi said, BJP is trying to fool the people by changing its Chief Minister here. "Nothing has changed. Neither loot, nor dishonesty. Merely changing chief ministers will not do. The people of Uttarakhand must change the present government."

 She appealed to the people to support and elect Congress Government in the state.

 Sonia Gandhi informed that only 40 per cent of the money given by Centre for welfare schemes in Uttarakhand have been utilised so far, while hardly 10 per cent of money under MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee)  has been spent. "For the last several years, the people of Uttarakhand have been deceived by the ruling party through lies. Their dishonesty and lies now lie in the open. The then chief minister's mask of lies was unmasked during the Kumbh Mela", said the Congress President.

 "BJP has to be defeated to remove the clouds of danger on Uttarakhand", Sonia Gandhi said.

 Sonia Gandhi listed several schemes taken up by the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre and promised to remove licences for 'kolhus' in the plains. Sugarcane prices will be paid promptly to the farmers, she promised.

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