Rae Bareli: In an attack on the non-Congress Governments in Uttar Pradesh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today (Sep 15, 2004) said that the development of the State had come to a halt as the Government's got involved in politics.

"It is better if the job of raking up political issues is left to the political parties and the Governments should concentrate only on works of development. But the difficulty is that the Governments themselves get involved in politics which is not fair," Gandhi said after inaugurating a computer training programme at the Feroz Gandhi polytechnic in Rae Bareli.

"The development of Uttar Pradesh has come to a halt in the last few years because of this reason," she said adding, "The people need development and not political slogans."

Gandhi said it was her endeavour to take the country on the path of development as dreamt by her late husband and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

"We are trying to take the country on that path. Wherever there are Congress Governments, difficulties are not that much but in cases where other Governments are in power, I can only hope they will also follow suit," she said.

She said Rajiv Gandhi had dreamt of all-round development of the country where people get proper education, women get respect and power, and there is equal development in the rural and urban areas.

She said that the 21st century would be known for revolutionising the field of information and technology and "we should take pride that the country is following the path shown by the late Rajiv Gandhi".