Security scheme is India's chance to make history, says Sonia Gandhi in rare speech: highlights

New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi is making a rare speech in the Lok Sabha in a pitch for her party's flagship food security bill.

Here are the highlights of her speech:

• Today Parliament has the opportunity to pass a bill that will free the country of hunger
• Both agriculture and farmers are principle points of our bill
• There are people who ask whether we have the means to implement this scheme, I would like to say that we have to figure out the means
•  The question is not whether we can do it or not. We have to do it