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Sonia`s foreign origin still live issue: NCP
Jaipur, Aug 03: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) said today that Congress president Sonia Gandhi`s foreign origin was still a live issue at the national level, but it was not relevant in the year-end assembly poll when issues like good governance should be to the fore.
Jaipur, Aug 03: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) said today that Congress president Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin was
still a live issue at the national level, but it was not relevant in the year-end assembly poll when issues like good governance should be to the fore.
"While her foreign origin is a live issue at the national level, Sonia Gandhi is not a chief ministerial candidate in any state. Therefore other issues like good governance should play a major role in the year-end assembly elections," NCP general
secretary Tariq Anwar and senior leader Jagannath Mishra told reporters after a state level workers conference.
They accused Congress of compromising on the issue of secularism by adopting a "soft Hindutva approach".
On Congress' readiness for forming alliance with other parties, Anwar said that there could not be any pre-condition like the one being sought by the congress that any alliance can be made only under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi.
The two leaders criticised the commitment made by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee at the cremation of Mahant Ramchandra Paramhans on construction of ram temple at Ayodhya, saying that it is a complete surrender of Vajpayee before RSS and VHP.
The NCP leaders demanded constitutional amendment to quash the Supreme Court verdict that reservation in government jobs should not exceed 50 per cent which, they said, was necessary for providing reservation benefit also to upper castes on economic basis.
The NCP would support the constitutional amendment for enhancing reservation, they said.
Bureau Report
They accused Congress of compromising on the issue of secularism by adopting a "soft Hindutva approach".
On Congress' readiness for forming alliance with other parties, Anwar said that there could not be any pre-condition like the one being sought by the congress that any alliance can be made only under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi.
The two leaders criticised the commitment made by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee at the cremation of Mahant Ramchandra Paramhans on construction of ram temple at Ayodhya, saying that it is a complete surrender of Vajpayee before RSS and VHP.
The NCP leaders demanded constitutional amendment to quash the Supreme Court verdict that reservation in government jobs should not exceed 50 per cent which, they said, was necessary for providing reservation benefit also to upper castes on economic basis.
The NCP would support the constitutional amendment for enhancing reservation, they said.
Bureau Report