In her ‘Personal’ Letter to Raebareli, Sonia Gandhi Attacks Modi

Sonia Gandhi’s letter did not speak of her party’s pre-poll alliance with Samajwadi Party in UP.

Sonia Gandhi has so far been absent from the Congress’s UP Poll trail. (Photo: PTI)

A day before Raebareli goes to polls, Congress President Sonia Gandhi wrote a “personal” letter to her core constituency, saying that the region and its people have over the years become the “biggest asset” of her life.

Gandhi, who has been absent from her party’s poll campaign across Uttar Pradesh, also took a dig at the BJP-led centre.

In 2014, the people of India, including Uttar Pradesh, gave Modi government so much, but instead of bringing ‘<i>acche din</i>’, the Modi govt just snatched everything that you possessed

Sonia Gandhi, President, Indian National Congress

The Congress President seemed to echo her son and party Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s views that PM Modi made lofty promises of acche din.

The government is deliberately trying to deprive people of welfare schemes. Have you ever seen a government which weakens its own people, works against its own people? This government is working for a handful of people, benefitting industrialists at the cost of the poor people.

Sonia Gandhi, President, Indian National Congress

Interestingly, Gandhi’s letter doesn’t mention her party’s pre-poll alliance with Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh. This, after she had personally stepped in to resolve an earlier stalemate over sharing of seats between the Congress and SP.

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