Road Ahead For Congress More Challenging Than ever Before: Sonia Gandhi
Accusing the ruling party of targeting the opposition, its leaders and workers, he said that the entire force of the state machinery is against them
Mumbai: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday called for unity at all levels of the organisation, saying the road ahead for the party was more challenging than ever and the resilience of party workers was being tested hard.
Addressing a meeting of the Congress Parliamentary Party, she also hit out at the BJP, saying the ruling party’s “divisive agenda” has become a regular feature of political discourse in all states and that history is being “mischievously distorted” to add fuel to its agenda.
“The divisive and polarizing agenda of the ruling party and its leaders has now become a regular feature of state-by-state political discourse. History, not only ancient but contemporary as well, is mischievously distorted and facts are maliciously invented to add fuel to this agenda.It is for us all to stand up and confront these forces of hate and prejudice,” she charged.
“We will not let them harm the bonds of harmony and harmony that have sustained and enriched our diverse society for centuries,” he told the MPs of both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.
Accusing the ruling party of targeting the opposition, its leaders and workers, he said that the entire force of the state machinery is against them.
“Maximum governance for those in power clearly means spreading maximum fear and intimidation,” she alleged and added that such intimidation and tactics will neither scare nor silence us and neither will we be intimidated.
The Congress Parliamentary Party meeting, held for the first time after the party’s defeat in the recent assembly elections in five states, is being attended by all party MPs in both houses of Parliament, apart from former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Congress President Rahul Gandhi.
Congress has been seeking to corner the government on the issue of inflation and the rise in prices of petrol, diesel and LPG gas.
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