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Congress President Sonia Gandhi has attacked the Narendra Modi government, during the Congress Chief Minister’s conclave, accusing it of engaging in a "dangerous duplicitous game" by allowing his colleagues to create an atmosphere of "fear and foreboding" by fomenting "communal polarisation". She accused the government with making "systematic attempts" to dismantle the edifice of the welfare state and asked her partymen to "strongly oppose" its moves on the land bill and food security law. Congress, which had lost the Lok Sabha elections has been drubbed to the lowest in its history. Now that it is out of power, it is using all its armours to ensure that the government cannot function by utilizing the majority it is enjoying in the Rajya Sabha. Congress, along with the opposition is burning all the oil to send the bills passed in the Lok Sabha to select committees so that the legislation can be delayed.

"One one hand, the Prime Minister wants to project himself as the great champion of good governance and Constitutional values while on the other he allows many of his colleagues to make vile statements and foment communal polarisation. This has already damaged our secular fabric. An atmosphere of fear and foreboding has been deliberately created," she said at the conference of Congress chief ministers, the first of its kind after the party's worst debacle in Lok Sabha polls last year.

By Premji