New Delhi, Lamenting that Congress lost in the Lok Sabha polls despite doing “so much”, Sonia Gandhi today (Wednesday) asserted that her party will stage a comeback even as she attacked BJP, saying it had shown “false dreams” and people got caught in the “trap”.
She
targetted the Narendra Modi government, accusing it of copying the schemes and
programmes of the UPA dispensation and taking credit for the same.
Addressing
a convention of ‘Mahila Congress’ here, Sonia along with Rahul Gandhi sought to
reach out to women by promising a larger electoral role for them at all levels
and making a strong pitch for reservation for them in Parliament and state
Assemblies.They
told the convention organised on the occasion of 70th birth anniversary of
former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi that women members of the Congress should
become a “tsunami” and contribute actively in the battle between ideologies.
“We had
done so much. Still some people laid a trap and people got caught in it. Our
work, our achievements got ignored and those showing false dreams marched
ahead,” she said, targeting BJP as she looked back at the Lok Sabha polls.To
buttress her point about performance of the previous Congress-led government,
she listed a number of measures initiated for women empowerment and other
reforms.
Targeting
the Modi dispensation, Sonia said, “those who have come in government today are
showing an altogether different picture to the nation in accordance with their
habit. They are implementing as their own schemes and plans, which were
luanched by Congress.”At the
same time, the Congress chief expressed confidence about staging a comeback.
“May be the path of our struggle is a bit longer and we may have to work a
little more. But if all of us work hard and do it together, the day is not far
when Congress will regain its peak.”
This was
the first such party convention since the Lok Sabha polls in which Congress
only got 44 seats.
Addressing
the “Sankalp Diwas” convention, Sonia said her party will put “full pressure”
on the NDA government to pass the Women Reservation bill as despite being in
Opposition her party cannot withdraw from its committment on the issue(Source- www.newsroompost.com)
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