Sonia exhorts people to put UP govt in dock

Ballia, May 5 (UNI) Congress president Sonia Gandhi today exhorted the people to take account of development funds from the Uttar Pradesh government.

Addressing an election gathering here, Ms Gandhi claimed that the Congress-led UPA government had given funds worth thousands of crores of rupees for education, roads, health and basic infrastructure to UP.

''However, there is hardly any sign that these funds have been utilised properly and judiciously by the Mulayam Singh Yadav regime,'' she pointed out.

She reiterated that Congress rule was must for the happiness and prosperity of the state.

Ms Gandhi noted that the Manmohan Singh government at the centre was working for the betterment and emancipation of every section of the society.

Flaying BJP, she said the party not only befooled the masses, but also ruined the country on the issue, which had helped it coast to victory at the centre in the past.

She observed the non-Congress governments at the centre and the states, had only pushed the country back in development parameters.

''These parties are only power hungry and interested in filling their personal coffers,'' the Congress chief alleged.

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