Will implement Sachar report: Sonia to Muslims

The Congress is determined to implement the Sachar Committee's recommendations, Sonia Gandhi said here on Sunday. Soliciting Muslim votes, the Congress chief said the Sachar panel was formed to understand how the community could be helped.

S h e trained her guns on non-Congress parties alleging their successive governments in UP had failed to develop infrastructure. The AICC chief targeted her attack on scamsters and looters, who she said had denied people in UP gains from central funds and schemes. In her 20-minute address at the Exhibition Ground here, she said the Centre was giving huge amounts for development under various schemes, but because of "luterey aur ghotale" (looters and scamsters ) people had not benefited.

Sharing the dais with RLD chief Ajit Singh here, she said : "The message which the city sends reaches different corners of the world. You all should support the Congress-RLD alliance."

Source: TOI

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