Dholpur (Rajasthan), Nov 20: Launching her party's poll campaign in Rajasthan, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today came down heavily on the Vajpayee government, describing it as "irresponsible" and said that the task of providing good governance cannot be fulfilled by "mere poetry". "Keval kavita se raaj dharm nahi chalata" (responsibility of providing good governance cannot be fulfilled by mere poetry), Sonia said taking a dig at Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at an election rally here.
She also charged BJP leaders and its allies of competing with each other while indulging in corruption and scams.

Without naming former Union Minister Dilip Singh Judeo, Sonia said that BJP had been projecting a person involved in financial corruption as its chief ministerial candidate in Chhattisgarh.

Accusing BJP of creating social tension by dividing people on religious lines, she claimed that only Congress could bring social harmony and unity in the country.
Attacking NDA government's policies, Sonia alleged that the economy was in trouble, there was industrial recession and government was on a selling spree of profit making public sector undertakings.

Lives of farmers, labourers and women had become miserable under the NDA rule and there was no effort for employment generation, she added.
Bureau Report