The Hindu : Sonia pleased with outcome

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Friday, Oct 11, 2002

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Sonia pleased with outcome

Mathura Oct. 10. Buoyed over the outcome of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls, the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, today said it was indicative of the growing confidence of the people in the party.

Interacting with party workers at the first divisional convention of the party in Uttar Pradesh, Ms.Gandhi merely smiled away a query whether Jammu and Kashmir PCC president, Ghulam Nabi Azad, was set to get a higher post. During campaigning in the State, the party had projected Mr.Azad as the party's Chief Ministerial candidate. At the convention, which lasted for four hours, Ms. Gandhi addressed the workers for only ten minutes and spent the rest of the time interacting with partymen to find out ways and means to revive the organisation in the crucial northern State.

Asking partymen in U.P. to be ready for a struggle, she said people were looking upto the Congress with hope and the party should strive to fulfil their aspirations. Assailing non-Congress leaders from the State, she regretted that their party-run Governments had done precious little for the people who were fed up with their functioning.

Ms.Gandhi also used the occasion to meet a cross -section of eminent people to understand the reasons behind the alienation of the Congress in the State. — PTI

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