Sonia Gandhi: Karnataka witnessed tremendous development under Congress

Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi attended a Congress delegates meeting in Tumkur, Karnataka and alleged that under BJP regime, the state has been slipping backwards. Before the meeting, Sonia Gandhi also had visited the drought-hit areas in the state and also had offered all possible help to the people in the affected areas. Sonia Gandhi also claimed that Karnataka witnessed tremendous development under Congress.

“Under successive Congress governments, Karnataka showed the way in different areas---in agriculture and horticulture, in the empowerment of dalits, girijans, OBCs, women and minorities, in women’s self-help groups, in insurance schemes for the poor and farmers, in education and health, in small-scale and medium industry, in IT and infrastructure”.

Recalling various welfare schemes beought in by Congress, Sonia Gandhi continued “I can still recall programmes like Ashraya, Yashaswini, Stree-shakti and Akshara Dasoha. Under Congress governments, growth in Karnataka created jobs for lakhs and lakhs of young men and women. It is that Karnataka that must be revived and that has to return. Karnataka can be brought back to the path of social peace and harmony, of faster economic growth with social transformation only under the Congress”.

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