Update on what Sonia Gandhi said at the Congress Parliamentary Party meet.

Speaking on gender issues, the Congress President referred to the Delhi gang rape cum murder case and said that after the consensus reached on the anti-rape Bill, "we should make every effort to see that these amendments are approved by both Houses before the recess begins (on March 22).

Asking the party to face the upcoming Assembly elections this year and next Lok Sabha elections in 2014 with "confidence, professionalism and enthusiasm", she asked the partymen to counter the "intemperate and abusive language" and "deliberate falsehoods" of the main opposition party BJP.

"The people have seen through the obstructionist tactics adopted by the BJP in Parliament and the deliberate falsehoods spread by it outside. "The use of intemperate and abusive language by the BJP about our party and its leaders goes beyond the pale of civilised discussion and debate. Are we going to take this lying down. Certainly not.

"We will maintain our dignity and take our fight to the people," Gandhi said. Maintaining that Congress' fight against the "malaise of corruption" continues in earnest, she said, "We are committed to the early passage of the Lokpabl bill."