India

NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday expressed concern over the grim economic situation in the country and accused the BJP government of misusing its mandate in the most dangerous fashion.

Sources said, Gandhi, while addressing Congress leaders at a meeting at the party headquarters asserted that the BJP government was testing the resolve and resilience of the Congress, which must now embark on an agitational agenda to reach out to the masses in exposing the BJP.

She noted that the democracy was at peril under the Modi government and alleged that it was misusing and abusing its mandate in the most dangerous fashion, the sources said.

Sonia Gandhi´s remarks came while chairing a meeting of top party leaders from across the country to finalise plans for Mahatma Gandhi´s 150th birth anniversary celebrations.

The meeting was attended by former PM Manmohan Singh, AICC general secretaries and incharges of various states, state government chiefs and Congress´ Legislative Party leaders, among others.

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi was not present in the meeting.