Sonia attacks BJP's 'dirty politics'

Leena Misra / TNN / Nov 4, 2007, 01:24 IST

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Congress President Sonia Gandhi attacked BJP for "dragging Lord Ram into its dirty politics."

ANAND: For fear of polarising votes, if Gujarat Congress leaders were confused about their stand on the Tehelka sting, which brought alive the horrendous tales of the 2002 massacres, Sonia Gandhi sorted out the dilemma on Saturday, attacking BJP for "dragging Lord Ram into its dirty politics."
Addressing a mammoth 'mahila samman sammellan' outside a bustling residential locality in this milk capital, Sonia chose to interpret the post-Godhra riots as a personal attack on the women's self-respect during Modi's regime and said now was their chance to throw this "misgovernment" out.
Sonia told the crowd that it was time to choose between Congress or BJP which "wants to make us a heartless society". Citing various schemes launched for women by the UPA government she said that the Centre had given lakhs of crores of rupees for various schemes to Gujarat but was not sure how it was used.
She asserted that Congress was for all religions. "The existing Gujarat government had nothing to do with society, politics, humanity or principles. The crimes that happened in 2002 and the truth that came out about them recently makes our heads hang in shame. Would any civilised society wish that its sisters or daughters go through such savagery or bodily abuse? What bigger insult to women than this?", she said.
She spoke about how Gujaratis had made a name in every corner of the world "but since sometime, within the country and outside people had started asking what kind of people were ruling Gujarat".
She charged that BJP did not flinch before dragging Lord Ram in their dirty power game and was now emotionally blackmailing people on the Sethusamudram project, without bothering to tell the people that it was conceived during the NDA regime.

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Leena Misra

Leena Misra is senior assistant editor at The Times of India, Ahmedabad. She has written on politics, crime, communal riots of 2002, people, city issues and a lot more. Loves all kinds of music, reading non-fiction and travelling.

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