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India needs Congress to combat challenges facing it: Sonia
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Shimla, May 02: Highlighting Congress` contribution
to nation-building since independence, AICC President Sonia
Gandhi on Saturday said the country needs the party`s long
experience in governance more than ever before to tackle the
challenges facing it including terror.
"The country is facing serious challenges like terrorism
from across the border and venom of communalism spread by some
power-hungry parties...in this condition India needs Congress
which has loads of experience in running government and has
honest leadership even more than in past," Gandhi said
addressing a mammoth rally at the famous Ridge maidan here.
Citing the "crucial role" played by the party in the
country`s freedom struggle and in nation-building after
independence, she spoke of the contribution of successive
Congress regimes at the Centre to the green revolution,
telecom and computer revolution besides the construction of
mega bridges, roads and power projects across the country.
In reply to the NDA`s soft-on-terror charge, Sonia
without naming anybody, asked how the leaders of a coalition
which gave "official hospitality" to dreaded terrorists and
let them off at Kandahar had the moral courage to talk about
fighting terrorism.
She asked her political opponents to introspect and look
into their own performance while in power before levelling
"baseless allegations" against the Congress-led UPA regarding
the manner in which it has dealt with terrorism.
Bureau Report
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