New Delhi: In a scathing attack on the Vajpayee government, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on August 18 said its days were numbered as its rule was marred by all-round failure, jeopardising country's Defence, denigrating key institutions of parliamentary democracy and mounting corruption.

Gandhi, who moved a no-confidence motion in Lok Sabha against the Vajpayee government, dubbed the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as "incompetent, insensitive, irresponsible and brazenly corrupt" during her one-hour speech.

Facing frequent interruptions and tongue-in-cheek remarks from the Treasury benches in a packed House, Gandhi held the government squarely responsible for "blatantly undermining the independence of our foreign policy".

She asked the Prime Minister why his government was "impeding" the functioning of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) by refusing to give it access to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) report "which has examined some transactions relating to Operation Vijay".

PTI