Sonia asks workers to get battle-ready

Continuing her attack on the Mulayam Singh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today called upon party worker...

Continuing her attack on the Mulayam Singh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today called upon party workers to be ready for a ‘‘long drawn battle’’ if the state government did not mend its ways towards addressing peoples’ problems.

‘‘The caste and communal politics pursued by the successive non-Congress regimes are responsible for the current state of sorry affairs of the state,’’ she said addressing a large gathering of party workers at Lalganj on the concluding day of her two-day visit to her Lok Sabha constituency.

Sonia, who was accompanied by her son and MP from Amethi, Rahul Gandhi, exhorted partymen to strengthen the organisation at the grassroot level to enable it to take its fight to a logical end. She regretted that Amethi and Rae Bareli were ‘‘ignored’’ by both the Centre and the state governments during the last few years. Observing that forming a coalition government at the Centre was a ‘‘new experience’’ for Congress, she exuded confidence that it would be able to live up to the expectations of the people who voted it to power.

Earlier in the morning, she met many people from her constituency at the ITI guest house.

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