Rae Bareli:
Defying Mayawati's attempts to scuttle her plans, Sonia Gandhi today visited her Lok Sabha constituency calling it her "karma bhoomi" and declaring that she is ready to go to jail for the sake of development.
"Rae Bareli and Amethi were the 'karma bhoomi' of Feroze Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. It is also as my 'karma bhoomi' and that of Rahul. Rae Bareli and Amethi are like my home. I want to ask, can anyone prevent me from coming to my home? No one can," she said.
She also took barbs at Chief Minister Mayawati saying like the Rail Coach Factory in her constituency for which land allotment has been cancelled by the state government, there were at least 8 such schemes on which the clearance has come from the Centre but "all the hurdles are here only in Uttar Pradesh".
Asked if she was prepared to go to jail, Gandhi shot back "I am also ready to go to jail".
Unfazed by the administration's apparent attempts to foil her plans for holding a rally today by imposing prohibitory orders, Gandhi flew straight to Fursatganj in a private aircraft skipping Lucknow.
Gandhi, who was cheered by slogan-shouting Congress workers who also garlanded her at some places, said she had planned to come here for the happy occasion of laying of the foundation stone for the Rail Coach Factory. "You know the matter is now before the court and I will not make any comments," she said when asked about the cancellation of the land allotment by the Mayawati government.
On Saturday the district administration had cancelled the land alloted to the proposed coach factory citing the demand from local farmers. But, on a petition from the Railway Ministry yesterday, the Allahabad High Court virtually stayed the order pronouncing status quo on the issue.
Asked how her party planned to face Mayawati's onslaught, she pointed to UPCC President Rita Bahuguna Joshi and some other leaders and said "these people will take care".
Defying Mayawati's attempts to scuttle her plans, Sonia Gandhi today visited her Lok Sabha constituency calling it her "karma bhoomi" and declaring that she is ready to go to jail for the sake of development.
"Rae Bareli and Amethi were the 'karma bhoomi' of Feroze Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. It is also as my 'karma bhoomi' and that of Rahul. Rae Bareli and Amethi are like my home. I want to ask, can anyone prevent me from coming to my home? No one can," she said.
She also took barbs at Chief Minister Mayawati saying like the Rail Coach Factory in her constituency for which land allotment has been cancelled by the state government, there were at least 8 such schemes on which the clearance has come from the Centre but "all the hurdles are here only in Uttar Pradesh".
Asked if she was prepared to go to jail, Gandhi shot back "I am also ready to go to jail".
Unfazed by the administration's apparent attempts to foil her plans for holding a rally today by imposing prohibitory orders, Gandhi flew straight to Fursatganj in a private aircraft skipping Lucknow.
Gandhi, who was cheered by slogan-shouting Congress workers who also garlanded her at some places, said she had planned to come here for the happy occasion of laying of the foundation stone for the Rail Coach Factory. "You know the matter is now before the court and I will not make any comments," she said when asked about the cancellation of the land allotment by the Mayawati government.
On Saturday the district administration had cancelled the land alloted to the proposed coach factory citing the demand from local farmers. But, on a petition from the Railway Ministry yesterday, the Allahabad High Court virtually stayed the order pronouncing status quo on the issue.
Asked how her party planned to face Mayawati's onslaught, she pointed to UPCC President Rita Bahuguna Joshi and some other leaders and said "these people will take care".
Source: www.mid-day.com
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