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1971 was, in many ways, Smt. Indira Gandhi’s finest year…
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Those were tension-filled days, weeks & months.
But she remained supremely composed & confident drawing upon her immense reserve of inner strength.
I add my voice to the concerns of students, parents, teachers, and I raise strong objections to such blatantly misogynist material.
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Most CBSE papers so far were too difficult and the comprehension passage in the English paper was downright disgusting. Typical RSS-BJP ploys to crush the morale and future of the youth. Kids, do your best. Hard work pays. Bigotry doesn’t.
rahul gandhi, former congress president
Unbelievable Are we really teaching children this drivel? Clearly the BJP Government endorses these retrograde views on women, why else would they feature in the CBSE curriculum? Narendramodi?
priyanka gandhi vadra, general secretary, congress
Received Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi ji and Rahul Gandhi ji at Jaipur airport
Ashok Gehlot – CM, Rajasthan
INC India :
Congress Parliamentary Party meeting took place in the Central Hall of Parliament, chaired by Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
Many issues including martyred farmers, suspended MPs were discussed in the meeting.
Under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi, the Congress is committed to raising the voice of of the people in the Parliament.
INC India :
Congress President Sonia Gandhi leads our protest against the draconian farm laws imposed by the Modi govt, in the presence of Rahul Gandhi and other MPs.
The Congress party will not rest until the interests of our farmers are upheld.
This Parliament session we will strive to ensure the voice and needs of our people are heard & heeded.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi & Rahul Gandhi in discussion with Congress MPs earlier today.
Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi & Shri Rahul Gandhi pay their tributes to former PM, Smt. Indira Gandhi on the anniversary of her martyrdom at the Indira Gandhi Memorial.
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Opening Remarks of Congress President Sonia Gandhi at the Meeting of General Secretaries, In-charges & PCC Presidents, to discuss INC membership program, Jan Jagran Abhiyan & upcoming elections :
General Secretaries and In-Charges, PCC Presidents and friends,You are all well aware of the CWC Meeting we had a few days back. I am sure you have read the three resolutions passed by the CWC and that they have been communicated and dis-tributed in your states. Today’s get-together is a follow-up to that meeting.
The detailed schedule for full-fledged organisational elections is already with you. The nation-wide Congress membership enrolment programme begins on November 10, 2021, and runs through till March 310, 2022.
I take this opportunity to emphasise to each one of the PCC Presidents, General Secretaries and In-Charges that new members are the lifeblood of any political movement. Young men and women across the nation seek a movement to give voice to their aspirations. It is our duty to provide them with a platform, as we have done for generations past.
You will have to ensure the proper printing and distribution of forms for every ward and village. You will have to identify and assign Congress leaders and office bearers, the task of going house to house, to enrol members in a transparent fashion. You must ensure the clear delin-eation of the responsibilities of these individuals at the state, district, block, ward and village level. This is a vital responsibility that you are entrusted with.
Training programmes for our workers are therefore an absolute necessity. You have received a circular from the AICC with regard to the organisation of such programmes at every level. I want to emphasise that you should take it on priority. The fight to defend our democracy, our Constitution and the Congress Party’s ideology begins with being fully prepared to identify and counter false propaganda.
We must fight the diabolical campaign of BJP/RSS ideologically. We must do so with conviction and expose their lies before the people if we are to win this battle.
The AICC releases important and detailed statements almost every day on issues facing the nation. But it is my experience that they do not percolate down to our grass root cadres at the block and district level. There are policy issues on which I find a lack of clarity and cohesion even amongst our state-level leaders.
You must train our workers to take on the unceasing onslaught of malicious disinformation campaigns at the behest of the BJP/RSS. And you must train our people to fight it while upholding and projecting the core Congress ideology.
Our own history bears witness to the fact that if an organisation is to succeed against injustice and inequality, if it is to effectively champion the rights of the marginalised, it must become a widespread agitation down to the grassroots.
The Modi Government has sought to erode our institutions so it may evade accountability. It has sought to undermine the core values of our Constitution so it can hold itself to a lower standard. It has questioned the very fundamentals of our democracy.
We must redouble our fight for those who are the victims of this government’s worst ex-cesses: our farmers and farm labourers, our youth fighting for jobs and opportunities, small and medium scale businesses, our brothers, our sisters with particular focus on the deprived.
To make this promise truly meaningful, we must also make our organisation more representa-tive of this cross-section of society.
Five states are going to election in the coming months. Congress party workers and leaders in these states are gearing up to take on these battles. Our campaign must be founded upon concrete policies and programmes emanating from widespread discussions with all sections of society.
Finally, I would like to re-emphasise the paramount need for discipline and unity. What should matter to each and every one of us is the strengthening of the organisation. This must override personal ambitions. In this lies both collective and individual success.
Jai Hind!
Congress President Smt Sonia Gandhi’s Opening Remarks at Opposition Leaders Meeting today via INC India:
Dear Friends, Chief Ministers, Senior leaders & esteemed colleagues, Welcome to all of you and thank you for responding to this invitation to meet again.
Even though we may not have met formally for over a year we have been in touch with each other in other ways.
You may recall we had written jointly to the Prime Minister on May 12, 2021 on the vaccination strategy to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, on the repeal of the three anti-farmer laws and on the free distribution of food-grains to the needy.
Some crucial changes were introduced in the procurement system of vaccines following our intervention. Needless to say, as always, somebody else has taken the credit. This does not matter really, as long as the people of the country have benefitted.
In recent months we have issued two public statements jointly on various national issues of common concern.
Our joint statement of May 23rd, 2021 covered the Covid-19 pandemic and the one on May 2nd, 2021 dealt with the repeal of the three anti-farmer laws and the need to resume of talks by the Government with the Samyukta Kisan Morcha.
Some of you also have taken up matters of public importance with the Prime Minister directly.
I understand that Sharad Pawar ji brought to his attention how the new Ministry of Cooperation, led by Home Minister himself, is a blatant interference in the Constitutional rights and responsibilities of state governments.
Mamata ji and Uddhav Thackeray ji emphasized the discrimination against non-BJP ruled states in vaccine supply, as have some other chief ministers.
And on behalf of Congress Party, I have also written to the Prime Minister on many occasions to highlight the need for urgent measures such as direct cash support, especially to those whose livelihoods have been badly affected.
The recent Monsoon session of Parliament was a complete washout again entirely due to the Government’s obstinate and arrogant unwillingness to discuss and debate urgent issues of public importance.
These include the Pegasus snooping scandal that
affects each and every citizen, the repeal of the three anti-farmer laws- the agitation of farmers that has been going on for the past nine months, the price rise of essential commodities and the continuing assault on federalism and the institutions of our democracy.
In spite of this, the session was marked by the determined unity that all Opposition parties demonstrated for over twenty days in both the houses. We functioned in a coordinated manner with daily discussions among our floor leaders.
It was entirely due to the Opposition parties that the Constitutional Amendment Bill was passed to restore the long-standing rights of states to identify and notify OBCs.
The Government had erred three years back and as you well know this Bill was required to rectify that mistake and a subsequent ruling of the Supreme Court.
I am confident that this unity will be sustained in future sessions of Parliament as well. But the larger political battle has to be fought outside it.
Of course, the ultimate goal is the 2024 Lok Sabha elections for which we have to begin to plan systematically with the single-minded objective of giving to our country a government that believes in the values of the Freedom Movement and in the principles and provisions of our Constitution, This is a challenge, but together we can and must rise to it because there is simply no alternative to working cohesively together.
We all have our compulsions, but clearly, a time has come when the interests of our nation demand that we rise above them.
The 75th anniversary of India’s Independence is indeed the most appropriate occasion for us to reaffirm our individual and collective resolve. Let me say for its part, the Indian National Congress will not be found wanting.
On the pandemic let me say that it is absolutely essential that our party plays an active role in ensuring full vaccination coverage.
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Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi and Shri Rahul Gandhi met with CM of Tamil Nadu, Shri MK Stalin and Smt. Durgavathy Stalin.
INC India
The prosperity of the people of Tamil Nadu is the Congress party & the DMK’s top priority.
Dear Prime Minister,
The Govemment of India has just asked states to declare Mucormycosis as an epidemic under the Epidemic Diseases Act
This means that there must be
(i) adequate production and assured supply of essential medicines to treat it; and
(ii) cost-free patient care for those in need of treatment.
I understand that Liposomal Amphotericin-B is absolutely essential for the treatment of Mucormycosis.
However, there are reports of its acute scarcity in the market. Further, the illness is not covered in Ayushman Bharat and most other health insurance products.
I would request you to kindly take immediate action on this matter to bring relief to the large number of patients being afflicted by Mucormycosis.
With regards,
Yours Sincerely
,Sonia Gandhi
Chairperson
Congress Parliamentary Party
Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s letter to PM Modi:
Dear Prime Minister,
Amidst the devastation caused by the pandemic and the heart wrenching tragedies being faced by affected families. news of young children losing one or both parents to COVID-19 are the most poignant These children are left with the trauma of loss and no support towards a stable education or future.
As you are aware, one of my husband Rajiv Gandhi’s most significant legacies is the network of Navodaya Vldyalayas.
It was his dream to make high-quality modem education accessible and affordable to talented youth, predominantly from rural areas. There are now, as you know, 661 such schools across the country.
I am writing to request you to consider providing a free education at the Navodaya Vidhyalayas to children who have lost either both parents or an earning parent on account the Covid-19 pandemic.
I feel that as a nation, we owe it to them to give them hope for a robust future after the unimaginable tragedy that has befallen them.
With regards
Yours sincerely
Sonia Gandhi
Chairperson
Congress Parliamentary Party
Sonia Gandhi, Congress President :
I wish you and your family safety and good health in this challenging time of Corona epidemic. My heartfelt condolences to the millions of families who have lost their loved ones.
This is a challenging time for our country and we all have to hold hands together and become a strength of one another.
I urge everyone to safeguard yourself by following all the safety protocols and help each other during this pandemic.
As far as the Government is concerned, it is time to wake up and fulfill their duties. Helping the poor should be their first priority and I urge the centre to deposit Rs 6000/- each to the bank accounts of all to stop their migration, till thepandemic is over.
The discrimination over vaccine pricing should end and black marketing of life-saving drugs must be stopped and all industrial oxygen should be provided to hospitals for medical purposes.
With the consensus of all political parties, I urge the Central government to evolve a national policy to deal with the COVID crisis in the country.
SONIA GANDHI, CONGRESS PRESIDENT
COVID-19 vaccine should be provided free of cost to all the citizens and vaccine production must be ramped up to speed up the country’s vaccination drive to help save people’s lives.
Even earlier the country has faced with several such crisis, but with unity and determination, we have been able to overcome such crisis.
The nation’s goal must be to ensure that everyone over 18 years is given the vaccine, regardless of their economic circumstances.
Sonia Gandhi – Congress President
I urge you to intervene immediately & reverse the new Covid19 vaccination policy.
“I fail to understand how any government can justify such thoughtless and insensitive measures directly at the cost of our people.” – Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi writes to PM Modi on rising fuel prices.
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Sonia Gandhi – Congress President:
I pay my homage to the farmers who have lost their lives & pray God gives their families strength in this time of grief.
Neither rain, nor cold. Neither lathis, nor water cannons.
Nothing can deter our farmers from fighting for their rights and as we have always done, today also, we stand with them.
The Modi govt should remember that democracy means protecting the interests of the people, the labour & the farmers.
The govt should immediately withdraw all 3 black laws & end the agitation.
This is true Rajdharma & a fitting tribute to the late farmers
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Rahul Gandhi, Congress Leader :
‘Change is in the air’.
I am sharing with you Congress President Sonia Gandhiji’s message to the people of Bihar.
It is time for the new Bihar to unite and win the Grand Alliance.
Statement issued by KC Venugopal MP & General Secretary, AICC after Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi chaired a meeting of General Secretaries and Incharges through video conference.
Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi has reconstituted the Congress Working Committee as follows:
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Students are our future, we depend on them to build a better India, therefore, if any decision has to be taken regarding their future it is important that it is taken with their concurrence
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Congress President Sonia Gandhi in discussion with 7 State Chief Minister’s via Video Conferencing :
Indian National Congress :
Congress President Sonia Gandhi writes a letter to PM Modi regarding the denial of reservation for OBC candidates under All-India Quota being filled through National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), in State/UT Medical education institutions.
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