Alwar: In her second visit to Rajasthan in last three days ahead of the forthcoming Assembly polls in the state, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on September 6 accused Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies of betraying the people of the country by failing to fulfill even a single promise they made in the last Lok Sabha elections.

"BJP and its allies made promises in 1999 polls that they would provide clean government, give employment to one crore people and make society free from fear and hunger but none of them was fulfilled," Gandhi said at a public meeting.

"Instead of doing something for the good of the people, the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) government is spreading hatred by pitching communities against each other," she alleged.

"They talked about probity in public life but there have been highest number of scams and incidences of corruption in Defence deals under this regime," Gandhi said.

Referring to the Congress-sponsored no-confidence motion against the Vajpayee government in Lok Sabha, the Congress president said in a Democracy the Opposition has every right to raise questions against the government. "We shall continue to raise people's questions and refuse to sing in the same tune as BJP and its allies," she added.

Gandhi also charged the NDA government with not extending adequate assistance to Congress-ruled states.

Earlier, she unveiled a statue of Rajiv Gandhi and inaugurated a newly constructed OPD ward in the general hospital in Alwar.

PTI