Sonia echoes Rahul: No post-poll tie-up

Referring to the various welfare schemes of the UPA government,like the loan waiver for farmers and the package for weavers,she said things would have been worse in the absence of these.

Attacking the BSP,Gandhi said that the Centre sent lots of money to the state for public welfare purposes,but people of the state would now have to take account of how much of it reached them.

Addressing a meeting in Allahabad,she said the city lacked infrastructure.

Local Congressman,Baba Awasthi,who had left the party red-faced with his poster asking Rahul Gandhi to take over leadership of the party even as Sonia Gandhi underwent treatment in the US,today seemed to have made up for it.

Given the post of election coordinator in the district,Awasthi,along with city Congress chief Shyam Krishna Pandey,presented Sonia with an ankush the leash used by mahouts to control the elephant. Pandey said the ankush would control the rampaging elephant.

With PTI