Sunday, September 9, 2012

Sonia Gandhi’s intervention behind landmark legislations by the Congress-led UPA



The information gathered through Right to Information Act shows that UPA chairperson and Congress President Sonia Gandhi has been consistently giving direction for more pro-poor welfare policies for the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre. The information reveals constructive role by the Congress President in most of the important legislations and policies made by the UPA government. Sonia Gandhi wrote almost one letter a month to the Prime Minister over the past two years, says the information.
Sonia Gandhi has been regularly giving directions to the Congress-led Centre and she has been making effective interventions for the legislations like food security, sexual offences against children, manual scavenging, communal violence, domestic workers and tribal welfare in particular.
As per the information the Congress President has written 25 letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and 17 letters to various Cabinet ministers since the National Advisory Council (NAC) was constituted for the second time in 2010.
Sonia Gandhi, who heads NAC, has actively championed her social reforms agenda by writing to the Prime Minister most often, as many as four times, on various aspects of the National Food Security Bill. Of the 17 letters written to Cabinet ministers, four related to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme, followed by three on issues pertaining to the Forest Rights Act.



This article is posted by pressbrief.in
 

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