Sonia Gandhi addresses the function to celebrate 105th birthday of Shivakumara Swami jee

Congress President Sonia Gandhi attended the 105th birthday celebrations of the highly respected Shivakumara Swami at 'Siddaganga Mutt' at Tumkur in Bangalore, which is considered to be one of India's oldest religious institutions. Sonia Gandhi asserted that education must inculcate respect for the wonderful diversities of our society. It is this diversity that has given us strength. Beneath this diversity lays the continuity and unity of our great nation.

Sonia Gandhi pays respects to Shivakumara Swami Jee in Bangalore

Congress President Sonia Gandhi attended the 105th birthday celebrations of the highly respected seer Shivakumara Swami at 'Siddaganga Mutt' at Tumkur in Bangalore, which is considered to be one of India's oldest religious institutions. Education is, no doubt, about academic learning. It is, no doubt, about acquiring qualifications to ultimately find security and fulfillment in life. But surely there has to be something deeper, something more basic to education if it is to serve as an effective instrument of nation building. And that something is values - moral values” said Sonia Gandhi.

Sonia Gandhi attends 105th birthday celebrations of Shivakumara Swami in Bangalore

Congress President Sonia Gandhi attended the 105th birthday celebrations of the highly respected seer Shivakumara Swami at 'Siddaganga Mutt' at Tumkur in Bangalore, which is considered to be one of India's oldest religious institutions. “May Dr Shivakumara Swami jee continue to inspire lakhs and lakhs of people across the state, across the country and indeed across the world in the cause of education, social service, philanthropy and spirituality,” said Sonia Gandhi paying respects to the seer in her address.

Priyanka Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi charm Raebareli

It was a rare scene for the people of Raebareli, when they saw Priyanka Gandhi Vadra innocently and affectionately pinched the cheeks of her mother Sonia Gandhi during a public rally of the Congress workers and supporters in Raebareli. The affectionate gesture clearly showed the profound love between the two and also the wonderful mother-daughter relation. It was a memorable day for the people of Raebareli as well as a confidence-building experience for the Congress workers in the region when both Congress President Sonia Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra addressed the rally together as part of their Congress campaign in Uttar Pradesh.

Both Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi addressed the people. Priyanka Gandhi gave the war cry by saying “uthenge, jaagenge and badlenge” along with the crowd. Congress President Sonia Gandhi held the 22 years of the non-Congress regimes responsible for the lack of development in the state of Uttar Pradesh and assured that a Congress Government will ensure development in the state.

The Congress-led Centre sent one lakh crore of rupees to the state of Uttar Pradesh under various schemes but nobody know where those funds had disappeared, said Sonia Gandhi. The Congress president also said that the state Government in U.P blocked many projects for development in Uttar Pradesh especially Raebareli, the Parliament constituency of Sonia Gandhi.

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Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi campaigned together in UP

For the first time for the recent UP assembly polls, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi attended a public rally together at Raebareli. While talking at the occasion, Sonia Gandhi held the non-Congress parties like BSP, SP and BJP, that ruled Uttar Pradesh in the past 22 years, responsible for the lack of development and bad living conditions in Uttar Pradesh.

Sonia Gandhi thanked the people for their warm welcome extended to me. “My relation with Raebareli is known to the entire world. I can confidently say that this region has always stood with me and I also have tried my level best to support you from the core of my heart. I have now come to you at a crucial time of elections” said Sonia Gandhi.

“During elections these non-Congress parties, who never bothered about your worries and problems in the past five years, approach you for your support. I feel sad to see the pathetic state of affairs in Uttar Pradesh. The parties which ruled the state for more than two decades destroyed the entire state. The state of Uttar Pradesh was not like this when Congress was in power. Nobody had imagined this sacred place of legendary Pandit Jawar Lal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi will witness such deteriorated conditions like we see now,” said Sonia Gandhi.

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Sonia Gandhi at the 105th birthday celebrations of Shivakumara Swami at Siddaganga Mutt in Bangalore

Congress President Sonia Gandhi attended the 105th birthday celebrations of the highly respected Lingayat seer Shivakumara Swami at 'Siddaganga mutt' at Tumkur in Bangalore, which is considered to be one of India's oldest religious institutions. “May Dr Shivakumara Swaijee continue to inspire lakhs and lakhs of people across the state, across the country and indeed across the world in the cause of education, social service, philanthropy and spirituality,” said Sonia Gandhi paying respects to the seer.
The Congress President added, “The primary education has been made a fundamental right. It is for all of us to ensure that this right is asserted and imposed so that all of India’s children from 6 to 14 receive free education”.
Striking an emotional chord with the people of Karnataka, Sonia Gandhi asserted that nothing exemplifies India’s diversity better than Karnataka itself, where people belonging to different culture, believing in different faith and speaking different languages have lived and worked for peace and harmony with each other.
Sonia Gandhi also asserted that education must inculcate respect for the wonderful diversities of our society. “It is this diversity that has given us strength. Beneath this diversity lays the continuity and unity of our great nation” stressed Sonia Gandhi.

Congress’s pro-poor policies are productive and in national interest: Rahul Gandhi

Launching a scathing attack against Mayawati for seeking votes of poor but after coming into power following anti-poor policies by aligning with rich and corporate builders, Rahul Gandhi has said Congress (I) pro-poor policies are productive and in the national interest. Congress is pro-poor and it will continue to work for the poor, said Rahul Gandhi while campaigning for Congress in Uttar Pradesh.
Highlighting that unlike the previous governments’ treatment of the poor as deserving recipient of occasional state doles, Rahul Gandhi said, Congress (I) government has made them partners in development process taking place in the country. Rahul Gandhi believes that poor people have potential but only lack resources. They need opportunity. Accordingly thrust area of Congress (I) is on capacity building programs for the poor. Congress (I) President Sonia Gandhi as chairperson of National Advisory Council and Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on the ground level are working on number of programs to empower the poor and to help them to stand on their own feet. This pro-poor approach of Congress (I) is in the national interest. The strength of nation lies in strength of its people, as a whole, and not in the riches of few urban elite, Rahul Gandhi said. Pointing out that no other party has done so or thinking in these terms to empower the poor, Rahul Gandhi said Congress (I) record of performance for the poor outmatch any other party.

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Sonia Gandhi at Siddaganga Mutt to pay respects to Shivakumara Swami jee in Bangalore

Bangalore: Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi is attending the Guruvandana programme of Siddaganga Mutt in Tumkur. The occasion was to pay respects to Shivakumara Swami jee on his 105th birthday celebrations. “May Dr Shivakumara Swaijee continue to inspire lakhs and lakhs of people across the state, across the country and indeed across the world in the cause of education, social service, philanthropy and spirituality” said Sonia Gandhi.

Rahul Gandhi in Mumbai to rejuvenate Congress

Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi reached Mumbai on Friday on a two-day visit. Rahul Gandhi said that he would tour the state more often to boost the grass root cadre and assist party preparations for the 2014 assembly elections.
Interacting with NSUI delegates from Maharashtra at Bhaidas Hall in suburban Vile Parle, Rahul Gandhi said, "I plan to undertake constituency-wise tours to take a first-hand view of the party's strengths and weaknesses. I will come more often here."
He also held a meeting with Youth Congress elected representatives. Rahul Gandhi called for the need to have zero tolerance to corruption and said that even those from the Congress should not be spared.
Rahul Gandhi also felicitated youth Congress activists who had won the recent local bodies election. He asked the youth Congress activists to identify their area of work and compile it on the youth Congress website. "The work will be evaluated and marks would be given. Good and meritorious workers will get enough chance to prove their mettle in politics, added the congress General Secretary.

Rahul Gandhi visits drought-hit Satara in Maharashtra

Mumbai: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi visited various places in the drought-hit Satara district in Maharashtra Saturday morning. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and other senior ministers were also along with him.
Rahul Gandhi visited the Zalshi Talao, which is one of the water sources in the district. He is also scheduled to go to nearby Bijwadi to take a look at state government sponsored employment guarantee schemes being implemented there among the drought-affected people of Satara and also will visit the Pangari fodder depot in the district which supplies fodder to a large cattle population in the region.

Dalit and Poor have suffered the most under Maya raj: Rahul Gandhi

Slamming BSP chief Mayawati for ignoring the plight of the poor and the development of the state, Congress (I) General Secretary Rahul Gandhi had said that she has all along been running the government for self and in her party’s interest at the cost of the dalits and the poor. “Uttar Pradesh remains the most backward state, said Rahul Gandhi while addressing a big Congress rally as part of his Congress campaign in the state.

Rahul Gandhi alleged that Mayawati ran the most corrupt government which benefitted only the rich, corporate houses and contractors at the cost of the aam admi. The Congress leader added that dalits and poor have suffered most under BSP rule.  Rahul Gandhi said that the funds sent by central government for welfare of the poor was stolen in UP leaving the poor huffing.  “People are fed up with this atrocious situation across. Even the Ministers and legislators are involved in corruption and crime and they are misusing their official position to make money” alleged the Congress General Secretary.

Lokayukta has indicted around two dozen of Mayawati’s cabinet ministers and legislators for corruption. She has removed as many as 26 ministers on corruption charges and some of her legislators are in jail for serious crimes like murder.

Assuring that that a Congress government would put an end to this pathetic situation, Rahul Gandhi said that Congress would ensure welfare of the people, good governance and fast track development in the state.

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