Sonia appreciates Gogoi govt

Assam has changed "tremendously" in the last ten years and peace and development is returning to the state, Congress President Sonia Gandhi said.

"The situation changed tremendously during the last ten years of Congress rule under Tarun Gogoi, with peace and development returning to the state and schemes being speedily implemented," Gandhi told an election rally at Neelam Bazaar in Karimganj district.She said, "The state was in an all-round mess ten years ago when the AGP was in power with even government employees not getting salaries and people were not able to go out of their homes because of poor law and order."

The Congress government in the state has laid stress on education as the party considers it an investment for the children's future, the UPA chairperson said.
The state government has already given computers to children who secured first division in the matric examination and cycles to girl students of class VIII so that they could go to school without any difficulty, she said."The Congress also proposes to set up a Barak Valley Engineering College and a Polytechnic Institute in Karimganj, she said.Gandhi arrived to address three election rallies at Karimganj, Bokajan and Khumtai going to polls in the first phase on April four.