ITANAGAR, OCT 11: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today lashed out at the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre, terming it a ``bunch of power-hungry, directionless and useless parties''.Addressing two different rallies on the occasion of completion of one year of the Congress government in Arunachal Pradesh here today, she said the country was heading towards a dark future with the BJP and its allies in power.``They made big promises before the elections about providing jobs to themillions, checking price rise and improving economy. On the contrary, the situation in the country is turning from bad to worse day-by-day,'' Sonia, who first addressed an official function and then went on to inaugurate a operations party workers' workshop, said.She added that the BJP-led alliance was shorn of ideology, which increased common man's woes by hiking the prices of petroleum products earlier this month. ``Our party is soon going to launch a movement to oust the BJP and its allies. They cannot be allowed to continue further,'' the Congress chief said, urging party workers to gear up for a vigorous campaign in the next few months.She also charged the BJP with dividing society on communal and religious lines and said the party was thriving on misinforming people particularly against the Congress and its leaders. ``They acquired power by spreading wrong information and this cannot be allowed any further. Our workers will have to expose their true colours before the masses,'' she added.Lauding the efforts of the state government headed by Mukut Mithi, Sonia alleged that the Centre has shown discrimination against Arunachal Pradesh on the issue of releasing funds to carry out flood relief and rehabilitation programmes.The Centre has so far not sanctioned a single rupee to the state as flood relief, except for a paltry sum of Rs 13 lakh released from the Prime Minister's Relief Fund, she said.
