Don’t fall prey to hollow promises: Sonia Gandhi

June 11th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Congress president and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi arrived in Rae Bareli Thursday with her daughter Priyanka to a rousing welcome by supporters. This is Sonia's first visit to her parliamentary constituency after last month's Lok Sabha elections.

June 11th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Congress president Sonia Gandhi, on a visit to her Rae Bareli parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh, Thursday said that development would top the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's agenda for the next five years. "We are not going to compromise with the issue of development as it will continue to remain on top (of the agenda) for our government," Gandhi told a gathering of party workers at the Feroz Gandhi Degree College in Rae Bareli, some 80 km from here.

May 23rd, 2009 AONLA - On her first visit here after winning from the Aonla parliamentary constituency, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Maneka Gandhi Saturday vowed to fulfil her poll promises. "I am not like those politicians who forget their promises after winning elections," Maneka Gandhi told a gathering in Aonla in Bareilly district, about 250 km from Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Thanking the people of the country for the Congress led UPA's stupendous performance in the 2009 general elections, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said that he would try to make party general secretary Rahul Gandhi a part of the new cabinet. Addressing media persons jointly with UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi at 10 Janpath here, Singh thanked the people of the country for the faith they had shown in the Congress party.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With Sonia Gandhi content to stay in the background, a beaming Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday invited all parties to support 'a secular government'. Clearly the man of the moment, Manmohan Singh said after a meeting with the Congress chief at her residence 10 Janpath: 'I invite all parties to support the secular goverment.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi Saturday thanked the people for reposing their faith in the party even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invited all parties to support the secular UPA government at the centre. Sonia Gandhi also said that a decision on her son and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi, who played an important role in the Congress victory, would be taken by Manmohan Singh.

May 13th, 2009 BANGALORE - Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) president H.D. Deve Gowda Wednesday said too much should not be read into his son and party leader H.D.

May 2nd, 2009 JAIPUR - Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday said various leaders, who claim to be prime ministerial candidates, are 'power hungry' and are 'least bothered' about the welfare of the people. 'Every leader of these fronts seems to be hungry for power and least bothered about welfare of the country and people.

April 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - It was the first political rally of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in Delhi since campaigning for the 2009 general elections began. And it was held on the hottest April day in the capital in over 50 years.

April 21st, 2009 RANCHI - Reiterating her controversial remark, Congress president Sonia Gandhi Tuesday said the country faces a threat from forces within that were trying to divide it in the name of religion. She also appealed to youths in Jharkhand to shun Maoist violence and join the mainstream.

April 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress leader Jagdish Tytler said Thursday that he 'was not going to pursue' his Lok Sabha candidature and left the final decision to party president Sonia Gandhi. 'I don't think I should fight (the election),' Tytler told a news conference.

March 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Shashi Tharoor has been appearing on TV talk shows taking questions ranging from what he wrote about Congress president Sonia Gandhi in a book to his plans for the Thiruvananthapuram constituency. In one talk show, Tharoor, who has lived in the US for the most part of his life, was asked if he is a 'US agent'.

February 28th, 2009 KOTHAGUDEM - As hundreds of thousands of people turned up to hear her speak, Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday kicked off the party's election campaign in Andhra Pradesh, saying 'secularism and people's welfare' were her party's principles unlike others who made 'hollow promises' on these issues. 'For some people, secularism, social justice and people's welfare are mere slogans and hollow promises but for the Congress party these are the principles,' she said, addressing the massive public gathering in this coal town in Khammam district.

February 9th, 2009 BHOPAL - Film director Prakash Jha Tuesday denied that the role played by Katrina Kaif in his 'Rajneeti' was based on Congress president Sonia Gandhi's political career. 'It (Katrina's character) has nothing to do with either the life or political career of Sonia Gandhi', Jha said here.

December 26th, 2008 NEW DELHI - Samajawadi Party general secretary Amar Singh Saturday admitted 'practical difficulties' in seat-sharing in Uttar Pradesh in next year's Lok Sabha elections after discussions with Congress president Sonia Gandhi. 'The Congress wants some of those seats which have some of our dependable and popular leaders as sitting MPs.