Sonia magic fails Gujarat

Billed as "the goddess of sacrifice", she descended in a helicopter from a cloudless sky, towards an expectant crowd.

But Sonia Gandhi, India's most powerful politician, has been short of magic this week as she struggles to strike an emotional chord with voters in her Congress party's campaign a week ahead of state elections in the key battleground of Gujarat.

The vote is being closely watched as the countdown begins to General Elections due by mid-2009 and this could even influence their timing.

"This government believes in its own development and the development of a handful of people," Sonia told a listless crowd of thousands in the town of Idar in Gujarat this week, many of them poor tribal farmers.

"We are committed to throw the cheats, liars and people who make fake promises out of Gujarat," she said, speaking in Hindi from a prepared text, to a brief burst of flat applause.

Courtesy:ibnlive.com
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