The Hindu News Update Service

New Delhi (PTI): Faced with sustained attack from the BJP, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday lashed out at the main opposition party, charging it with being "stubbornly uncooperative" and "obstructive" in Parliament and trying to gain political mileage even out of terrorist attacks.

With an eye on the upcoming Assembly elections in Gujarat, she slammed the saffron party saying Mahatma Gandhi's ideas, ideals and institutions are "under sustained assault in the state of his birth itself and in other BJP-ruled states".

In her inaugural address at the AICC session here, she asked Congress members to "be in the forefront to combat those who subvert" the Father of the Nation's legacy and "those who seek to rewrite his life's work and accomplishments."

Gandhi devoted substantial time in her address in attacking the saffron party for playing "obstructive" and "partisan" politics and reminded the BJP that her party was also in the opposition but had acted in a very dignified manner.

"The achievements of our government so far are all the more creditable given the stubbornly uncooperative attitude of the BJP in Parliament. No words are strong enough to condemn the BJP's attacks on our Prime Minister and on our party," she said.