MUMBAI: Though it is not yet clear whether the Congress would go in for an alliance with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) for the forthcoming Assembly polls in October, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday sounded her party’s campaign bugle in Mumbai.
Sonia arrived here to inaugurate the office building of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee. In a public speech at the Azad Maidan in south Mumbai, Sonia appealed to the people of the state to cast their votes in favor of the Congress. She briefly outlined the policies of the Congress party and said the Maharashtra government had worked for the development of citizens from all sections of society.
She said the state government had tried its best to improve common people’s life. “It has been the Congress party’s policy ... to give strength to the common man.”
Meanwhile, NCP chief and federal Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said on Monday he was against his party breaking alliance with the Congress over a seat-sharing dispute. Some party leaders had suggested that the party should fight the polls alone in view of the humiliation being heaped by the Congress.
