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Nehruvian legacy of secularism, socialism core beliefs: Sonia

New Delhi: Faced with the party's worst-ever poll performance, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today said that “staunch secularism” and “socialist economics” were their “core beliefs” and noted that these values of Nehruvianism are being “fundamentally

PTI Updated on: May 27, 2014 20:09 IST
But we remain profoundly wedded to Nehru's concern for the weakest sections of society,” Gandhi said.

Lauding the outgoing UPA government, which has come under attack from friends and foes alike after the poll debacle, she said, “The 10 years of UPA have entrenched an updated version of Nehru's idea of India that has widened the scope of its democracy through such innovations like RTI, one that has defended secularism in the face of vigorous threats to our nation's diversity.”

She claimed that the UPA regime had also deepened inclusiveness through the creation of a framework of rights which all went towards strengthening and empowering the poorest of the poor.
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