Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi are back in battlefield Gujarat to power the electoral campaign of their respective parties in the bitterly-fought Assembly polls.
Modi addressed rallies in Morbi and Prachi villages near Somnath, Palitana in Bhavnagar and at Navsari in south Gujarat.
Rahul Gandhi is on a two-day campaign tour. He kicked off the trip with a visit to the famous Somnath temple. He has been repeatedly ridiculed by the BJP for visiting a string of temples in the state during the election campaign.
The Congress vice president visited Gir Somnath, Amreli and Bhavnagar districts where he interacted with people and held public meetings.
Attacking Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi for calling GST 'Gabbar Singh Tax', Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Wednesday, 29 November, that those who looted the country could only think of dacoits.
Resuming his campaign for the assembly polls in his home state, Modi accused the Congress of taking credit and political mileage over minor schemes, like providing hand-pumps, while saying that the BJP rule brought major projects like the Narmada project for the benefit of the people.
Gandhi had earlier dubbed the Goods and Services Tax 'Gabbar Singh Tax', recalling the iconic villain in the Bollywood blockbuster ‘Sholay.’
Attacking the opposition party, Modi said, "The Congress' development model was giving hand-pumps. For BJP it is the SAUNI scheme (the Narmada water project for Saurashtra region), where we will fill dams of Saurashtra through huge pipelines."
Modi had on Monday pushed the BJP's campaign in Gujarat into high gear by addressing four back-to-back rallies.
Gandhi said that Modi is a terrific actor and he will not shed a single tear for the farmers. “He will also not cry when students have to shell out money for taking admission in college or people have to go to hospital,” said Gandhi on PM Narendra Modi during an election rally in Amreli, Gujarat.
Gujarat goes to polls in two phases on 9 and 14 December, while votes will be counted on 18 December.
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