Sonia pats Gogoi Govt, blows Cong trumpet
Source: The Sangai Express / Press Trust of India
Karimganj (Assam), April 01 2011:
The law and order situation in Assam has changed "tremendously" in the last ten years and peace and development is returning to the State, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today said.
"The situation changed tremendously during the last ten years of Congress rule under Tarun Gogoi, with peace and development returning to the state and schemes being speedily implemented," Gandhi told an election rally at Neelam Bazaar in Karimganj district.
She said, "The state was in an all-round mess ten years ago when the AGP was in power with even government employees not getting salaries and people were not able to go out of their homes because of poor law and order."The Congress govt in the state has laid stress on education as the party considers it an investment for the children's future, the UPA chair-person said.
The State Govt has already given computers to children who secured first division in the matric examination and cycles to girl students of class VIII so that they could go to school without any difficulty,
she said.
"The Congress also proposes to set up a Barak Valley Engineering College and a Polytechnic Institute in Karimganj, she said.
Gandhi arrived to address three election rallies at Karimganj, Bokajan and Khumtai going to polls in the first phase on April four.
Gandhi said the UPA Govt under the leadership of Manmohan Singh had laid special emphasis on education by implementing the Right to Education Act, under which each child below 14 years of age would be provided free and compulsory education.