May God save the country from 'Modi model': Sonia

The Gandhi family today raised the pitch against Narendra Modi and his Gujarat model with Sonia Gandhi saying God should save the country from such a model under which the common man suffers.
"BJP's chief campaigner is selling Narendra Modi model in the name of Gujarat. What is happening in Gujarat under this model? Sikhs living there since past 50 years were being forced to leave the state," Sonia said while addressing an election rally in Malwa belt of Punjab.
"He Bhagwan! Desh ko bachaao is tarah ke model se (May God please save this country from this model)," she said.

In Amreli in Gujarat, Rahul Gandhi attacked Modi, alleging that there is a "partnership" between the BJP PM candidate and industrialist Adani who is "funding" the Modi marketing blitz to return "favours".
Rahul also lashed out at Modi, accusing him of claiming credit for the hard work of others in the state.
"There is partnership between Modi and Adani," he alleged saying that all senior leaders like L K Advani, Jaswant Singh, Yashwant Sinha and Sushma Swaraj have been sidelined for the partnership with Adani.

Sonia also raked up the issue of malnutrition in Modi's state. "In Gujarat every second a five-year-old child is malnutritioned and those who get Rs 11 per day are not considered below poverty line in Modi model," she added.

Sonia alleged that around 45,000 acres of land in Gujarat had been given to one businessman at a cheap rate and under this model several people in the villages are still not getting potable water.
Accusing BJP of adopting an ideology in which common man will be identified not by his capabilities and skills but by his religion, language and caste, she said, the saffron party's ideology is of "hatred, narrow mindedness and consistent hunger to achieve power" at the centre.
"Their (BJP) ideology wants to take the country on that path where nation's entire power is with one person," she said in an indirect reference to Narendra Modi.

"They will take the country to a situation where the poor, weak and farmers will beg for their rights," she said.
However, in contrast the ideology of Congress is of development of farmers, the poor and the weak and every citizen of the country, she said adding that Congress is for peace and communal harmony.