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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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