Ms Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who returned to campaign in Amethi and Rae Bareli on Thursday, mounted a blistering attack on the BSP and said that the BSP government was wasting money on statues and parks instead of concentrating on development. Addressing a series of meetings here, she said that winds of change had started blowing in favour of the Congress and this was the chance to bring the party to power in UP.
“Public money is not for leaders, but for the common man. It is not for statues or parks, but to provide basic amenities to the people. The UP government has looted the state... It is time to bring in change in Uttar Pradesh after 22 years,” she said at a meeting.
Accompanied by her two children, Rehan and Miraya, she arrived here on Thursday morning to resume campaigning.
Talking about the performance of the non-Congress governments in the past 22 years, she said that while the SP had set up goonda raj, the BSP developed a handful of its leaders from the development funds at the cost of the state and its people.
“By taking over power in the name of caste and community people have harmed the interests of the state and its people,” she pointed out.
Ms Priyanka Gandhi Vadra further said that she was glad that none of her party MLAs has faced charges of murder or corruption whereas those belonging to non-Congress parties have been found involved in such activities.
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Church bodies debate ideology
Thufail P.T.
New Delhi, Feb. 9
The Last Supper controversy has once again invoked the old debate — whether a communist can be religious too. This time, within the Church.
While the Delhi Catholic Archdiocese described Communism as an ideology that shares the “primary concerns” of Christianity, its parental body, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, has rejected this idea.
The spokesman and director of DCA, Fr Dominic Emmanuel, said Communism and Christianity have the primary concern of “liberating the oppressed”. He added they differed only in their “way of functioning”. But CBCI spokesperson Fr Babu Joseph did not entertain any comparison between Communism and Christianity as the “former is a religion and the latter the denial of religion”. “DCA is just one of the 164 dioceses under CBCI. Its view cannot be taken as that of CBCI.”