Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, on 16 November, alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi "feared" the "transformed image" of Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, and so the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was raking up old issues such as Bofors to "defame" the Gandhi family.
He claimed the BJP-led Centre and the Gujarat government were rattled by the “massive response” the Congress was getting in the poll-bound state.

