Senior Congress leader Satyavrat Chaturvedi on Tuesday put the government on the mat for its failure to live up to the electoral promises made before the last general election.

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Opening the debate on the no-confidence motion moved by his party chief Sonia Gandhi on Monday in the Lok Sabha, he said: "We have done nothing wrong in moving this motion. It is not a question of numerical strength...it's the government's performance in last five years which is important," he said.

Accusing the National Democratic Alliance government headed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of having failed on all fronts, Chaturvedi referred to the country's dismal GDP growth.

He pointed out that while the GDP growth was 6.7 per cent in 1995 when the Congress relinquished power at the Centre, it now stood at a dismal 4.3 per cent.

"Let the government be held accountable to its unfulfilled electoral promises," the Congress spokesman said.

Referring to the current food supply situation in the country, Chaturvedi ridiculed the prime minister's promise that his government would create a ' hunger-free India.'

He said starvation deaths in various parts of the country have made a mockery of the PM's promise.

Referring to the Vajpayee government's promise of building 20 lakh houses for the poor every year, he asked: "Has the government attained even 50 per cent of the target?"

Pointing out that women constitute 50 per cent of the country's population, he wanted the government to explain why is it running shy of pushing the Women's Reservation Bill in Parliament.