Sonia Gandhi Accuses PM Modi Of Making Hollow Promises

Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's promises of combating corruption and ensuring inclusive development were a trick to grab power.

“The slogans of ‘sab ka saath, sab ka vikas' and ‘na khaoonga, na khaane doonga' are only and only dramebazi (drama) and a trick to grab power,” Gandhi said at the 84th Congress Plenary session. She added that the Congress the people have started to realise that the promises made by the BJP in 2014 were hollow.

“Under the leadership of former PM Manmohan Singh, the economy of this country flourished. Our government formed policies which lifted millions of people from poverty. And today, the Modi government is weakening these policies,” Gandhi said.

Gandhi said the present dispensation was using all means to be in power. But the Congress has and will never bow before the power of arrogance of this government which has launched vendetta against its opponents, she said.

She called upon party workers to forcefully fight against the challenges and asked them to mount a struggle to free the country from the fear of power.

The party, she said, was making efforts to win back the trust of the people and would work with like-minded parties to oust the BJP. Gandhi also urged the partymen to extend all support to the new party chief and her son Rahul Gandhi who had taken over the reigns in “such difficult times”.