Modi trashes opinion polls, dubs them 'lies'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today trashed opinion polls, which gave an edge to AAP in the Delhi assembly polls, saying these were "lies" and asked Delhiites not to get swayed by such surveys.
During his last election rally here, three days ahead of assembly elections, Modi also tried to woo voters by talking about central welfare schemes.
Trashing opinion polls which have predicted majority for AAP, he asked people not to get swayed by these "lies" and said during last assembly elections they (AAP) claimed that they will win more than 50 seats but could not even manage the highest tally.

"Even when I contested from Varanasi in Lok Sabha, they (surveys) said Modi will lose by three lakh votes. I don't know who are they (pollsters)," Modi said, adding he was wondering how someone who could not win his own Lok Sabha seat was being projected as someone big, in an apparent reference to AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal.
Attacking AAP on recent allegations of "dubious" donations, Modi said he was asked by his friends whether he has also given donation to AAP and when he got it checked, "I was surprised to know that even Mahatma Gandhi and (US President Barack) Obama have donated to them."

"What kind of people are they (AAP)? In public life there should not be any place for such lies," the Prime Minister, who has been holding rallies for three consecutive days in Delhi, targetted AAP without naming it.

He also talked about various welfare schemes undertaken by his government to help the poor during the rally in South Delhi's Ambedkar Nagar and said his politics was all about development without which no state can progress.
"My politics have only one style, only one mantra and only one focus and that is development. And it means that there should be change in the lives of the poor people. Their children should get education, their parents should get medicine. And there should be concrete house in place of jhuggis," he said.

He referred to 'Jandhan' and direct benefit transfer for gas cylinder subsidy as pro-poor measures taken by his government.
In an apparent attack on Congress, he said his was neither a "ghotala sarkar (government of scam)" nor was a government run with the help of "ghotalebaaz (scamsters)".