Pathankot (Punjab): Terming the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government as "opportunist" and "narrow minded", Congress president Sonia Gandhi today (May 2, 2004) alleged it indulged in large scale corruption.

"Tall claims of the NDA to provide corruption free Government has proved hollow.... In fact, even coffins of soldiers were on sale in the NDA regime," she told an election rally in favour of party candidate Sukhbans Kaur Bhinder from Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat.

The BJP, which promised employment to one crore youth, did nothing for the unemployed, Gandhi said.

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The Congress president said that the NDA Government was "opportunist and narrow minded".

She claimed all sections of the society, especially women and dalits, were unhappy with the policies of the BJP-led Government.

Promising to provide "maximum rights" to women, Gandhi, in her brief address, assured that Congress, if voted to power, would work for rebuilding the country.