Those who are in power here are "hand-in-glove with those dead against secularism", the Congress president said addressing an election rally in the minority-dominated Kishanganj area of Bihar.
In a veiled attack on Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi today accused him of being hand-in-glove with those who were "dead against" secularism.
Those who are in power here are in "hand in glove with those dead against secularism", she said addressing an election rally in the minority-dominated Kishanganj area of the state.
Seeking to puncture the Nitish Kumar government's development plank, Gandhi attacked the government for not giving land for establishment of a centre of Aligarh Muslim University in Kishanganj despite all clearances from the Centre.
"You have talked about Aligarh Muslim University. Everything is clear from the Centre but the government here is not giving land. It has not given the land so far," she said.
Claiming that only Congress can bring Bihar back to the path of development by providing a secular government, she regretted that the last twenty years saw the several parties coming to power, which had "no vision for development".
She urged people to vote for Congress and "bring a revolution of development" in the state.
"There is a leader who seeks to have secular image, but has alliance with a party which is anti-secular...He has raised objections over the visit of a chief minister of his alliance for campaigning in Bihar," Gandhi said indicating Kumar's opposition to Narendra Modi's campaigning in the state.
"It is a politics of opportunism", she said.
The Congress chief said the people knew that Kumar had not not parted company with the NDA and had not resigned from the Vajpayee ministry even after what had happened in Gujarat.
She said Congress had faced ups and downs on several occasions in the past "but has never compromised with its principle and secularism."
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