Jaipur: United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi yesterday hit out at the opposition parties, accusing them of conspiring to create instability in the country to stall the government’s public welfare schemes and grab power.
“We want to bring the Food Security Bill so that no one sleeps hungry in the country. But if the opposition parties had not opposed it in parliament, we would have enacted the bill.
“It is unfortunate that opposition parties have made it a habit to prevent the Congress from launching public welfare schemes,” she said, while addressing a gathering at Suratgarh, some 550km from Jaipur.
“I want to tell you that some parties are involved in creating instability in the country so that they can grab the chair. When there is instability in a country, public welfare and development works get badly affected,” she said.
Gandhi was on a visit to Rajasthan to lay the foundation stone of two units of 660 MW each at a power plant in Suratgarh in Sriganganagar district, while in Nagaur’s Jayal town, she inaugurated a Rs29.38bn drinking water supply project.
IANS
