Learnt hard lessons from 26/11: Sonia

Saluting the indomitable spirit of the people of India who stood united at the time of peril,Congress president Sonia Gandhi said on the eve of the first anniversary of 26/11 Mumbai terror strike that the country had learnt hard lessons from the tragedy.

But we have also learnt that no terrorist attack will ever be able to hit at the spirit of Mumbai and its people8230;. We have witnessed in this past year the courage,resilience and determination with which Mumbaikars have resumed their lives. If the terrorists were seeking to divide our nation,create chaos and divert us from our chosen path,they miscalculated totally. India has emerged stronger, she said in a statement on Wednesday.

She said the siege by terrorists was a brutal and wanton assault on people,on a city and its spirit. It was an assault on the very idea of India, she said. Gandhi said these 12 months had not dimmed the countrys grief for those who died in the siege or our sense of outrage. She saluted the memory of all those who perished in the attack.