New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today spoke to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and chief ministers of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand seeking timely and prompt relief measures for flood-affected people in the two states.
Gandhi enquired from Shinde and chief ministers Virbhadra Singh (Himachal Pradesh) and Vijay Bahuguna (Uttarakhand) about the situation arising out of the floods caused by heavy monsoon rains and incidents of cloudburst, the in-charge of AICC's communication department Ajay Maken said in a release
Oscar Fernandes greets unseen Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh and United progressive alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi after taking the oath of Union cabinet minister during a function at the presidential palace in New Delhi on June 17, 2013. India's embattled ruling Congress party geared up June 17 for next year's elections with a cabinet revamp, boosted by a bitter split in the opposition over the elevation of a Hindu hardliner. Four veteran Congress politicians were sworn into the cabinet, as the party readied for a tough battle to try to win a third term in office amid a slew of graft scandals, policy malaise and the slowest economic growth in a decade.
Indian labourers load containers of tomatoes onto a truck at a vegetable wholesale market in Hyderabad on June 12, 2013. The National Food Security Bill - 2011, considered to be the world's largest experiment in ensuring food security to the poor, has been a key project of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and finally seems to be getting off the ground at a whopping cost of 1.25 lakh crore Indian rupees. The Bill aims at meeting the food needs of 75% of rural households and 50% of urban households.
Indian United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government Chairperson and Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi (C) talks with rural women during the 2nd anniversary of India's National Rural Livelihood mission in New Delhi on June 3, 2013. India's ruling Congress will fight the 2014 general elections under the leadership of party president Sonia Gandhi and octogenarian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Indian United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government Chairperson and Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi (center L), Congress Party Vice President Rahul Gandhi (center R) and other senior congress party leaders attend a prayer meeting for congress leaders and persons killed in a Maoist attack in Chhatisgarh state, during a ceremony at Congress Party Headquarter in New Delhi on May 27, 2013. Twenty seven people, including senior Congress leaders and security personnel, were killed in the deadly Maoist attack on a convoy of Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on May 25.
India's Congress party president Sonia Gandhi, left, and vice president Rahul Gandhi, second left, pay tribute to those killed in Saturday's Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh at a prayer meeting held at the party's headquarters in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 27, 2013. Troops fanned out across central India on Monday in a massive manhunt days after hundreds of Maoist rebels attacked a convoy of ruling party members and leaders, killing 24 people in an area considered the stronghold of the rebels, police said.
