Campaign for Karnataka

“If you start writing the 2G scam amount, the amount of 1 lakh 76 thousand crores, is as big as the distance between 7 Race Course Road (Prime minister’s residence) and 10 Janpath (Sonia Gandhi’s residence). The last zero will end at 10 Janpath.”
That’s how Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi chose to size up the performance of the Congress-led UPA government at an election rally in Bangalore on Sunday.
In his only and much awaited election campaign in the state, Modi launched a blistering attack on the Congress and took the battle to the rival camp. He refrained from naming Rahul Gandhi but at least eight times referred to him as “the boy born with the golden spoon”.
Rahul had on Friday spoken of the BJP government in Karnataka having set a world record in corruption.
Stating that it is the Congress which should lay claim to the dubious title of being the mother of all corruption, Modi said: “No son disobeys his mother but in the Congress, the mother is continuously saying ‘Power is Poison’ and the son is campaigning in Karnataka saying ‘Give us power’. Whom do we believe?”
Every word Modi spoke during his hour-long speech was lapped up by the crowd that clapped and cheered him. “BJP ruled states are no 1 in every sector in the country. But the Congressmen are raising a hue and cry against them. Only Italian made locks can make them shut their mouths,” he said.
Questioning Congress as who is their chief ministerial candidate in the May 5 Karnataka assembly election, Modi thundered, “Why are you showing only your hand (party symbol), instead show your face. By just showing the hand people will not know whether Congress will save or drown the state.”