New Delhi, Dec. 21 :     In a bid to tone up the Congress? performance in the Lok Sabha, AICC chief Sonia Gandhi has set up small working groups to keep tab on the functioning of various ministries and departments. Addressing the Congress Parliamentary Party, Sonia today urged the party MPs to ?remain alert? on Ayodhya as ?Hindutva agenda? continues to be in the ?very heart? of the BJP. She alleged that efforts were being made to ?saffronise? education. Sonia has appointed seven panels to focus on areas like human resources development, infrastructure, home, centre-state relations, defence, foreign affairs, agriculture and women affairs. Senior leader Arjun Singh, who was human resources development minister in the Rao government, will assist Edwardo Feliaro and K.M. Khan to monitor the HRD ministry while Rajesh Pilot and P.C. Chacko will scrutinise L.K. Advani?s home department. Balram Jakhar and S.S. Surejwala have been deputed to review agriculture policy while Margaret Alva and Sukhbans Kaur Bhinder will look after gender based issues. Manmohan Singh, Pranab Mukherjee, Prithviraj Chavan, Jairam Ramesh and Surinder Singh Singla are part of the core group on economics and infrastructure related issues. Mukherjee, Natwar Singh, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Salman Khurshid and Anand Sharma will keep a tab on foreign policy. They will also be assisted by apolitical professionals like former career diplomats. These panels will prepare background papers which will be circulated among party MPs in the budget session of Parliament. In her address, Sonia targeted the Vajpayee government over its alleged reluctance to table the Women?s Reservation Bill. ?The government wants to introduce the Women?s Reservation Bill on the last day of current session as it wants to buy time to cover up widening cracks in the ruling coalition,? Sonia said. She said the threat to secularism from BJP?s ?real agenda? remained as ?menacing? as ever as Ayodhya and other contentious issues remained very much a part of the party?s programme.