Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday met the chief ministers of the Congress-ruled states to review the implementation of various development schemes and fulfilment of poll promises by the state governments.

Reviewing the details, Sonia Gandhi emphasized on the need to put in place an effective system for monitoring and implementation of the key manifesto commitments that the Congress party had made in the run up to the Assembly elections.

In this regard the concrete and outstanding achievements of the respective state governments, even in face of constant destabilizing efforts on part of the BJP, were enumerated and discussed.

The details of systems put into place to ensure effective coordination between the Party Organizations and the Governments in these states were also discussed, so as to ensure that working in tandem, all the programs of the Government and commitment of the Party could to taken seamlessly to the people.

It was pointed out that apart from the constant diabolic game of destabilization that the BJP plays, its government at the Centre also leaves no stones unturned to create road blocks in the implementation of Central Schemes and Programs by the Congress ruled States. The need of an effective strategy to deal with this problem that includes exposing the BJP in front of the people was underlined.

The various steps that the Congress state governments had undertaken or could take to mitigate the disastrous impact of the current economic slowdown were also discussed and the need to act on them with urgency was felt.

The Congress President also asked the respective state governments to assign duties on regular basis to ministers on roster basis to sit in PCC Offices to address public grievance.

The Congress President emphasized that the alternate governance model, which are people centric and inclusive, put forth by these States coupled with the national agitational endeavor of the Party were the most effective way to deal with and defeat the anti people governments of the BJP.

Also present in the meeting were former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, senior leaders A.K. Antony, K.C. Venugopal and Ahmed Patel.