Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday attacked the Narendra Modi government for not taking any action against Union Minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti for her objectionable comments. She alleged that the government had no respect for democracy and was working to divide people on communal lines.
“No action was taken against the Sadhvi for using objectionable language,” Ms. Gandhi said addressing a poll rally here. “They [the BJP] want people to fight on the name of religion. The BJP has no respect for secularism and democracy. Their sadhus and sadhvis are dividing the society by using objectionable language against a particular community,” she alleged.
Ms. Gandhi said that her party was committed to a “one time resettlement” of refugees and the party was also working to give plots of land to border residents.
“We are committed to providing honourable living conditions to Kashmiri Pandits and other migrants. We will work for the weaker sections of the society, Dalits, minorities and women. Will work for their empowerment,” she said.
She accused the Centre of increasing corruption in the country by diluting the Right to Information Act.
“To fight corruption, the Congress gave common man a tool in the form of Right to Information Act. The Act was meant to check corruption. However, since coming to power, the BJP government is weakening the Act to benefit the corrupt and increase corruption in the country.”
‘Trapping voters’
Ms. Gandhi alleged that the BJP was “trapping” the voters by making promises that they would never fulfil after coming to power in the State. “They make big promises which they don’t fulfil. Before elections they show green pastures to the people. But when they come to power they forget all those promises,” Ms. Gandhi said.
The Congress leader said that ‘ ache din ’ (good days) promised by the BJP before coming to the power were still awaited by the people of the country.
“They always take a U-turn on their promises, they had promised to bring back black money in 100 days and deposit Rs. 15 lakh each in the account of every citizen, but now after coming to power they are not even disclosing the names of the people who hold black money,” she said.
