Congress is responsible for every major change in India
I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be.
The lifestyle of many of our colleagues has been very pompous. They conduct weddings and birthdays in such an ostentatious manner that it pains me a lot. It appears that they are making fun of our commitment to the poor.
I have issued instructions that while handling the situation in Upper Assam innocent civilians should not be harassed.
I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.
Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.
The Maharashtra government is working out a package for the worst-affected villages of the state in the recent floods. But we know whenever such calamities occur; whatever we do is not enough...more has to be done.
My complaint with Dr Singh is that he sometimes does not highlight his achievements enough.
I am an Indian. In fact, I feel like a foreigner when I go abroad.
During Congress rule terrorism was countered effectively and firmly, whereas during the BJP regime terrorists were treated like guests and released in their own country.
The future of each of us is inter-connected and all of us should work together by following the path laid down by former leaders of the party for the development of the country and its brighter future.
Returning to power in northern India is very important for the Congress party. No magic wand will work. We have to make our efforts. It will be a long and difficult struggle for us.
An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.
The biggest challenge at the national level is to defeat communal forces for which the support of the Left parties was essential but the party is opposed to the Left in Kerala because UDF's aim is to ensure economic development and social harmony.
To be equitable, economic growth has to be sustainable. To be sustainable, economic growth has in turn to be all-inclusive. All-inclusive is no longer the greatest good of the greatest number. It is actually Sarvodaya or the rise of all. This Mahatma Gandhi saw as essential to Satyagraha itself.
It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities.
