"Friends from the media have been waiting for the last two months hoping 'Modiji aur Rahulji ka kahin muqabla ho jai' (Modi and Rahul may confront each other somewhere) and their wish has been fulfilled in Nowgong today," Modi told an election meeting here.
"I appeal to the unbiased media to take the opportunity and judge for themselves the emotional wavelength of the people here and in whose favour the wave is," he said.
"In a democracy, the party in power is responsible to people. They must go to people and give an account of the work done by them for the people but the Congress is an arrogant party. They do not consider it necessary to answer to the people," he said.
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