Sonia kicks off election campaign in UP

Gonda: Kicking off her election campaign in Uttar Pradesh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today attacked Chief Minister Mayawati for dismissing her ministers on election eve and asked whether this has cleansed her government. "The present chief minister dismissed 21 of her ministers on election eve. She was not able to see their corruption in the […]

Gonda: Kicking off her election campaign in Uttar Pradesh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today attacked Chief Minister Mayawati for dismissing her ministers on election eve and asked whether this has cleansed her government. "The present chief minister dismissed 21 of her ministers on election eve. She was not able to see their corruption in the past five years. I want to ask whether taking resignations made her government clean," Gandhi said.

"Is this not cheating the people...not an attempt to cheat the people," she asked. Lashing out at non-Congress governments over the past 22 years in the state, Gandhi said that they have all ruined Uttar Pradesh where there has been no one to hear their voices as people of these parties have been involved in misdeeds.