With Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who turns 68 on Tuesday, decided not to celebrate her birthday in view of terror and Naxal attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and Chhattisgarh respectively, leaders here at Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee’s office would mark the occasion with a simple ceremony of felicitating some freedom fighters.
“In solidarity with the martyred Army and police personnel there, Sonia Gandhi has asked Congresspersons not to celebrate her birthday so we have decided to honour freedom fighters on the occasion,” disclosed a senior Congress leader, who was busy making preparation for grand celebration of Party’s foundation day on coming December 28.
This is the first birthday of Sonia Gandhi after the last Parliament elections, which saw a virtual rout of Congress nationwide at the hands of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP). Eleven security force personnel were killed in a predawn attack by militants on an Army camp in Uri area of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir on December 5. All the six militants involved in the attack were also killed.
While Maoists had unleashed a major attack killing 14 CRPF personnel and injuring 12 others in Naxal-infested Sukma district of Chhattisgarh on December 1.