While speaking on the occasion of the celebration of the 60th year of Parliament, Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi said that Parliament’s integrity and independence must be preserved at all cost. “It must not only be a source of law and power but also justice and compassion” added the Congress leader. Sonia Gandhi acknowledged the fact that the greatest triumph of the country in the last sixty years is the common people became the heart and soul of Indian democracy. “The poor and illiterate masses have again and again voted with wisdom, they have voted with purpose, sometimes reaffirming their faith in those who govern them, sometimes voting them out, said the Congress MP from Raebareli.
Arguing that India's freedom struggle reinvented the idea of democracy, Sonia Gandhi said, "If there is one thread running through these past six decades, it is that people's power is felt constantly at the highest levels of governance."
The Congress President further said that Indian social legislations have emerged as a global benchmark today and the laws enacted in last sixty years have especially protected the excluded and the marginalized. "My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest should have the same opportunity as the strongest," said Sonia Gandhi quoting Mahatma Gandhi.
The UPA Chairperson also paid rich tributes to the security personnel, who sacrificed their life in 2001 when Parliament was attacked by some terrorists.
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