Live Reporting: Sonia Gandhi lashes out at Left in Kerala convention

1:46 pm: We brought RTI, MNREGA and Food Security Act. this is not charity, this is the right of the people of India, says Sonia. At every occasion when cases of corruption came to our instance, we took action. I want to know what action did they take when cases of corruption came against their own leaders here in Kerala and in Bengal. They did not take any action.

1:45 pm:Left Fron rejects the principles of non-violence. We rely on discussion, they rely on violence and mass killings. It is because of huge growth in the last 10 years that the govt of Manmohanji has been able to launch large numer of programmes, like rural development, urbal development, sanitation, education and health, and it is the conomic growth that helped the Centre to provide to ALL states with funds for development.  We now have record production of foodgrains, and procurement prices of rice and other cereals have more than doubled.

1:40 pm: Sonia Gandhi speaks: Left has become a party of ideology that has become irrelevant today.  They are relying on slogans of the past.

12:54 pm: Sonia Gandhi and all Congress leaders stand on stage, as Vande Mataram is sung.  Sonia sits on a pillow, as all Congress leaders squat on mattresses covered with white sheets.