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Sonia in
Rae Bareli: Dalits and Muslims on agenda
Monday November 29, 2010 09:24:27 PM ,
IANS
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Rae Bareli: The first
day of Congress president Sonia Gandhi's three-day visit to her
parliamentary constituency Monday seemed to be virtually devoted
to Dalits and Muslims.
While it is a routine ritual for Gandhi to undertake periodical
tours of her constituency, it was somewhat unusual for her to be
concentrating only on Dalits and Muslims.
She visited a couple of Dalit homes, interacted with the community
members and sought information relating to welfare and social
security schemes funded by the central government.
She also visited a Darul-Uloom Mohammadi Madrasa in Hallaur
village and readily conceded their demand for construction of an
additional classroom out of her constituency fund.
Earlier, after landing in Lucknow Monday morning, she drove
straight to the Indira Gandhi Eye Hospital run by the Rajiv Gandhi
Foundation from the erstwhile building of one-time popular English
daily, National Herald.
The newspaper was founded by her grand-father-in-law Jawaharlal
Nehru, India's first prime minister.
After a quick feedback from patients and doctors, she drove down
to Rao Bareli, making unscheduled halts at a number of villages.
Her constituents got easy and free access to Gandhi. She got a
rousing reception everywhere, with crowds shouting slogans of
"Sonia Gandhi, Zindabad!"
The common complaint in most villages related to irregularities in
implementation of government schemes meant for the poor.
Villagers also drew her attention to the denial of 'job cards' to
a large number of poor people. Some carrying job cards alleged
they were not paid wages.
However, what seemed to shock her was the realization that despite
release of funds from the central road fund six years ago, a road
meant to connect Mau and Maharajganj villages was yet to be made.
A visibly agitated Gandhi asked her Congress workers to have word
sent to the concerned sub-divisional magistrate and other state
officials to explain the lapse.
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