BJP will win Gujarat election with thumping majority: Jaitley

He further said Congress conducted its campaign in Gujarat elections merely as a formality and the high percentage of voting in the first phase suggested that BJP would return to power with thumping majority.

"They first campaigned through brand ambassador and in the last few days some of their leaders came to campaign. The Congress has no direction, leadership or agenda. Its leaders are merely completing a formality in compulsion by coming for campaigning in the state," he said.

"One of their leaders during the campaigning said that BJP had opposed the Jan Lokpal bill. They should know the difference between the Jan Lokpal bill and Lokpal bill," Jaitely said.

He was referring to a statement by Rahul Gandhi during his poll rally.

Referring to Sonia Gandhi's charge that Modi was inciting people by raising the Sir Creek issue, Jaitley said, "Modi is not inciting people on Sir Creek but he has right to ask a question to the Prime Minister as a common person".

When asked as to what prompted Modi to claim that the Centre was going to hand over Sir-Creek to Pakistan, Jaitley said, "the CM would not write a letter without any base."

Speaking about CBI, Jaitely pointed to a statement by a former director of CBI, who said the agency faced political pressure, and commented that "the state which has suffered the most due to misuse of CBI is Gujarat".

Referring to the high percentage of polling, he said that BJP will return to power with a thumping majority.