While taking part in the discussion conducted on the occasion of the celebration of the 60th year of Parliament, Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi underlined that that the greatest triumph of the country in the last sixty years is that the common people became the heart and soul of Indian democracy.
“The poor and illiterate masses have again and again voted with wisdom, they have voted with purpose, sometimes reaffirming their faith in those who govern them, sometimes voting them out”, Sonia Gandhi said.
Noting that India's freedom struggle reinvented the idea of democracy, the Congress President added, "If there is one thread running through these past six decades, it is that people's power is felt constantly at the highest levels of governance."
Sonia Gandhi, the Congress MP from Raebareli, also said that Indian social legislations have emerged as a global benchmark today and the laws enacted in last sixty years have especially protected the excluded and the marginalized. "My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest should have the same opportunity as the strongest," said the Congress leader quoting Mahatma Gandhi.
Sonia Gandhi also paid tributes to the security officials who sacrificed their life in 2001 when Parliament had come under a terrorist attack.
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