BJP-Congress spar over Sonia’s comeback promise
21 Aug 2014 6:06 AM IST
She targeted the Narendra Modi government, accusing it of copying the schemes and programmes of the UPA dispensation and taking credit for the same.
Slamming Sonia Gandhi over her ‘false dreams’ remarks, Bharatiya Janata Party said that such comments are born out of ‘reluctance to reconcile’ to the election defeat and asked Congress ‘not to insult’ people’s mandate.
‘Sonia Gandhi is a big leader of her party. She should not insult the mandate of people. In last 30 years, people of the country have for the first time given full majority to a party. Will people of the country vote for lies or trap?’ Law Minister Ravishankar Prasad told reporters.
‘What does she want to say. Her party had also won twice We did not say any such thing then. It is high time Congress party must reconcile to its defeat and the victory of BJP.
Reluctance to recognise this is creating all these problems,’ the senior BJP leader said.
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.
Slamming Sonia Gandhi over her ‘false dreams’ remarks, Bharatiya Janata Party said that such comments are born out of ‘reluctance to reconcile’ to the election defeat and asked Congress ‘not to insult’ people’s mandate.
‘Sonia Gandhi is a big leader of her party. She should not insult the mandate of people. In last 30 years, people of the country have for the first time given full majority to a party. Will people of the country vote for lies or trap?’ Law Minister Ravishankar Prasad told reporters.
‘What does she want to say. Her party had also won twice We did not say any such thing then. It is high time Congress party must reconcile to its defeat and the victory of BJP.
Reluctance to recognise this is creating all these problems,’ the senior BJP leader said.
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.
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