Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday launched a scathing attack on BJP for its misrule in Uttar Pradesh saying those who spoke about Lord Rama's Ayodhya have turned the state into Ravana's lanka.

'I will not advise you to act like Hanumanji and set it afire but to restore honour and dignity," she said launching the party's election campaign at a largely attended public meeting in Kanpur.


Regretting that UP had fallen into bad days in the last 12 years of non-Congress rule, Gandhi said that the state which posted prime ministers like Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Rajiv Gandhi had been made a backward region by communal and casteist forces.

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Cautioning the people that if they failed to take the right step this time, they will repent for several years, Gandhi declared that Congress would have no alliance with any party and would fight the elections on its own.

"We will act according to the mandate we receive and will not compromise with our principle," she said.
Bureau Report