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Congress President and UPA
Chairperson who was on a one-day visit to Mangalore in Karnataka, launched a
scathing attack on BJP on Thursday and said that it never took any serious
action to fight corruption. She also claimed that the Centre had given Rs 80,000
crore to the Karnataka government in the past five years, but questioned if the
state government had let the money reach the people or used it in programmes
meant for the welfare of people.
Addressing a public rally, Sonia
Gandhi targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Karnataka
accusing it BJP of spreading lies against the Congress-led UPA government and
making attempts to defame them. She slammed the state BJP government saying,
"People want to get rid of the corrupt state government."
Sonia Gandhi also backed the recent
hike in fuel prices, reduction in subsidy on LPG cylinders and the reform
measures like FDI in retail. "We have no control over the international
price of the oil...we have been forced to hike prices of cooking gas and
petrol," said the Congress president.
Justifying the foreign direct
investment (FDI) reforms Sonia Gandhi, "By allowing FDI in retail we are
ensuring a direct linking between the farmers and the market and also we will
enable the consumers to pay the lower prices. New jobs as well as new
infrastructure will be created”.
The Congress president also assured
the people that the UPA government was serious to fight corruption. She said,
"We brought the RTI because we genuinely want to fight corruption."
She also said that the UPA wanted to bring the Lokpal Bill, but it was the BJP
which stopped the bill in Rajya Sabha. “Then you tell me whether BJP is really
serious to fight corruption or they are just pretending to fight corruption”
she added.
Pepping up the Congress workers for
the next year's Assembly elections, Sonia Gandhi said the BJP was running
corrupt governments in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh and
Jharkhand.
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