Tuesday, March 28 2006 16:46 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Rae Bareli (UP): Launching a scathing attack on the opposition, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today (Mar 28, 2006) said their true colours have come out after her resignation as everyone was trying to save himself from disqualification in the wake of the office of profit controversy.

"Perhaps you must have noticed that everyone's language has changed after my resignation," Gandhi, who resigned from Lok Sabha last Friday, said addressing a largely attended public rally here in her constituency.

Apparently targeting parties like Samajwadi Party alongwith opposition BJP, Gandhi quipped that her detractors had suddenly became quiet and started finding out ways and means of saving themselves.

"I am not going to say much, but you understand what is happening," she said in a tongue-in-cheek remark at those who had created uproar in Parliament accusing her of using Parliament and Government to save herself from certain disqualification.

Revealing that she had decided to quit the Lok Sabha seat after consultations with her children Rahul and Priyanka, Gandhi declared she was aware that the road ahead is difficult and there are dangers.

'I am not the one to get scared'

"But I am not the one to get scared by all this. I am not going to retrace my steps," she said.

Gandhi said that the opponents of Congress have not been able to stomach the fact that the party-run coalition was at the helm of affairs at the Centre and those who used to target Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi were now targeting her.

"Whenever the opportunity arises, they say all concocted things. If there is a storm, hailstorm or lightning falls, they say it was all because of Sonia Gandhi. I am their enemy number one," the Congress President said alleging that she was the target of all the attacks.

Gandhi, who also resigned as chairperson of National Advisory Council, said that she had not accepted that post for personal gains but to advise the government on the implementation of the Common Minimum Programme.

Noting that the NAC played an important role in the framing of the historic National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme, she regretted that some people, however, see everything from a selfish angle.