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Congress activists feed birds to mark Sonia Gandhi's birthday

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A welfare programme undertaken by the Congress activists in Pune to mark the birthday of the party president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday involved feeding of birds on the city hilltops.

During the "Seva, Kartyavya and Sacrifice" week, launched by the former Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, about 1,000 women from city slums were given 'Sonia Gandhi Health Cards' with insurance cover of Rs one lakh and hospitalisation expenses of Rs 20,000, ex-MLC Mohan Joshi said on Tuesday. Joshi said he started SKS initiative in 2004 when Sonia Gandhi refused to take up the Prime Minister's post.

"Scattering of food grains on the city hilltops was taken up this year from ecological point of view as the hills around Pune are being rendered barren with tree-cutting in the wake of increasing construction activity," he added. The Congress president, who turned 68 on Tuesday, has decided not to celebrate her birthday in view of terror and Naxal attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and Chhattisgarh respectively.
 

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