Rae Bareli: Rejecting NDA's (National Democratic Alliance) claims of all-round development under its rule as "hollow", Congress President Sonia Gandhi today (Apr 22, 2004) accused the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party)-led Government of trying to take credit for projects and programmes initiated and implemented by the successive regimes of her party.

"Congress ke lagaye pedon ke phalon ko NDA apni uplabdhi bata rahi hai jabke sachchaye yeh hai ki jo bhi pragati huye hai woh Congress ke raj mein huye hai (NDA is trying to take the credit of all the projects set up during the successive Congress governments as its own achievements)," she said addressing an election rally in Pure Pande area in Rae Bareli.

"The reality is that the only development during the tenure of the NDA Government was in the fields of corruption and scams," Gandhi said listing various scams that had surfaced during its rule.

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From setting up of new industries, laying of roads and canals to white and green revolutions as well as nuclear programmes, all had been the achievements of successive Congress Governments, she said.