The level of political discourse has gone down so low in the run up to the polls and during the campaigning that even several senior Union Ministers are using derogatory language.
BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi looks to be the punching bag and has been facing most of the verbal abuse. However, Modi is also hitting back at opponents by questioning their patriotism and alleging that some of them were "agents of Pakistan".
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi accused Modi's government in Gujarat of "stealing" farmers' land and charged the BJP with misusing money for schemes launched by the Congress-led UPA.
Without directly naming the Gujarat Chief Minister, Gandhi alluded that Modi works like "Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler" and attacked him for retaining "corrupt" ministers in his state cabinet while talking big about fighting corruption.
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