Kumari Selja advocates need for reservation for the poor

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Kumari Selja advocates need for reservation for the poor.

Presides over N.W.O. Seminar on Environment & Human Society.

Mandate shall be for Congress in next LOK SABHA elections.

SIRSA NEWS
26 September, 2008
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Pictures: Pankaj Dhingra; Amit Soni & GS Mann

CONGRESS would emerge as the largest single party in the parliament after the Lok Shaba polls next year, claimed Kumari Selja the Union Minister of State for Poverty alleviation and Urban Development. While addressing media persons here she asserted that she would contest the next election from the Ambala Parliamentary seat. She said that during the present regime the Congress led UPA Government has done a lot for ending the menace of corruption by implementing the Right to Information Act. She claimed that the Act would go a long way in ensuring transparency in the functioning of the bureaucracy throughout th country. She claimed that the Union Govt has adopted a plethora of development schemes for the poor and the unemployed by implementing National Rural Employment Guarantee Act which ensures minimum 100 days employment to the unemployed persons in the villages throughout the country. The Minister claimed that it was the Congress which was instrumental in ending the India’s nuclear isolation in the International arena by signing the Indo-US Civil nuclear deal and the future posterities would remember Congress with gratitude for signing this pact. She further claimed that the fully confident Congress would contest the next elections as the poor masses irrespective of caste creed or Parochial considerations are fully aligned with it. Later she participated in a Seminar on Environment and the society held under the aegis of National Welfare Organisation, as the chief guest.