Noted social activist Aruna Roy urged Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday to intervene personally to give a “strong political push” to the UPA’s flagship programs like the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Program and Social Security Pensions. In her letter to Gandhi, who heads the National Advisory Council, the former NAC member said as the term of the 15th Lok Sabha draws to a close “four important promises” of the United Progressive Alliance government are “still to be implemented, despite being supported by a national political consensus.”
