UPA is a coalition govt of doers, not talkers: Cong

Congress on Thursday patted its back for passing two bills, pertaining to land acquisition for projects and rehabilitation and resettlement of displaced persons in the Lok Sabha and slammed the opposition for putting obstacles in the smooth passage of the bills.

Congress on Thursday patted its back for passing two bills, pertaining to land acquisition for projects and rehabilitation and resettlement of displaced persons in the Lok Sabha and slammed the opposition for putting obstacles in the smooth passage of the bills.

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"Congress led UPA government is a coalition governent of doers, not talkers," party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi told reporters here.

Taking a dig at the opposition, he said, "there are people who promise, people who shout and people who do."

The spokesman termed the provisions in the Bill as "revolutionary" and guided by the principles laid down by party president Sonia Gandhi in the Nainital conclave of the party a few years ago.

Singhvi said for the first time in 120 years, 70 per cent of the land has to be shown purchased in advance by the private parties before the government chipped in for further acquisition of the remaining 30 percent of land for public welfare projects.

The Congress leader said that the bills were a "clasp in a chain" of several historical initiatives by the UPA government which included NREGA, Right to Information Act, Domestic Violence Act and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.

Asked why the land acquisition bill was brought so late in their tenure though it was mooted in 2007, he said the opposition had opposed it for over two years.