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Choose between development and hate: Sonia Gandhi

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‘Terrorists have no religion and no party should associate with them’

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Wooing voters: Congress president Sonia Gandhi with Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit at an election meeting at Manglopuri in Delhi on Sunday.

NEW DELHI: The people have to make a choice between the politics of development and the politics of hate while electing a new government in Delhi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said on Sunday.

Addressing a huge gathering at the Ramlila Maidan in Mangolpuri here, she said: “The people of Delhi have two options before them. On one hand is the Congress that stands for development and believes in taking people of all religions and castes along, while on the other there are those who practise the politics of division and spread hate.”

Refraining from naming any political outfit, Ms. Gandhi said the Congress wanted to form the government for the people and to continue its development work, but the other parties wanted to grab power for their own good. “Our party thinks for all. I know that you trust our intentions and understand our feelings. Congress ko vote deejiye taki vikas ka pahiya chalta rahe (Vote for the Congress so that the process of development continues).”

Touching upon the issue of terrorism, the Congress president said that terrorists had no religion and no political party should associate them with a particular religion or community. “Those who are dividing people in the name of religion and caste are pushing the country towards darkness and they cannot escape the blame. The United Progressive Government is fully awake to this challenge.”

Claiming that the Congress was a party with a vision, Ms. Gandhi said the historic Indo-US nuclear deal signed by the Congress-led Government at the Centre would enhance power production in the country and other fields would also benefit from the deal. “ When the first Indian went to space, it was during our rule and now also when Chandrayaan-I is orbiting the moon, we are in power.”

She said it was the because of the performance of the Congress that the party had been ruling in Delhi for the past one decade.

“We have given stability. But the others spent their term in infighting and changed three chief ministers during five years of their rule. They are again trying to mislead people through advertisements and false promises.”

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said: “More than three decades after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi regularised unauthorised colonies in the Capital, Ms. Sonia Gandhi has again distributed provisional certificates for the regularisation of over 1,500 colonies. The certificates are given after gazette notification of the Central Government and are genuine.”

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