Sonia raps Opposition on graft row
Nov. 25: With the Manmohan Singh government facing the Opposition attack on the issue of corruption, the Congress president, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, on Thursday hit back asking it to take stern measures like the UPA has done to tackle the problem. “The UPA government has taken enough measures to ensure corruption-free system and initiated strict action whenever needed. The Opposition should also initiate such measures,” she said.
Mrs Gandhi was addressing a rally here at the end of the first phase of the Congress Jansandesh Yatra. “The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, is serious on the issue of corruption and is personally striving to make the system corruption-free. Stern action has been taken on complaints of corruption whenever needed,” she said.
Mrs Gandhi’s remarks came against the backdrop of an unrelenting Opposition stalling Parliament for the past two weeks demanding a JPC probe into the 2G spectrum allocation and the reports of corruption in Adarsh housing society and Commonwealth Games projects. Claiming that Uttar Pradesh was suffering from basic problems in sectors like power, water, roads, employment and law and order, Mrs Gandhi said despite unbiased attitude of Centre towards all the states, people of UP were facing such problems.
“The Centre understands its responsibilities and is always there for the common man. UP has been sanctioned `12,000 crores under Central schemes for the welfare of people in an unbiased manner,” she said, rubbishing the Chief Minister, Ms Mayawati’s allegation that the Centre was biased towards non-Congress states.
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