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BJP's prime ministerial candidate
Narendra Modi on Saturday said a wish of the media for a 'muqabla' between him and
Rahul Gandhi addressing poll meetings in the same constituency on the same day was fulfilled in Assam today.
"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 Nagaon today," Mr Modi told an election meeting.
(Rahul Gandhi accuses Narendra Modi of tapping women's phones in Gujarat)"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.
"Rahul Gandhi came and repeated the same thing that he had said during his earlier rallies. Both mother and son deliver the same speech again and again. I know they do not have enough people to do the job but if they want any help in writing speeches, they can approach me or anybody from the party," Mr Modi said.
(No 'Dhoom 3' this time: Narendra Modi taunts Rahul, Sonia Gandhi)"In a democracy, the party in power is responsible to the 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.
"In 2009, the Congress had promised to control price rise in hundred days, but did he mention anything about price rise during his rally today and they had also promised employment to 10 crore people, but they have been able to give jobs to only 1.5 crore people. Do Sonia and Rahul Gandhi have an answer for this?" Mr Modi asked.
(Modi-ji, don't try to fool India, says Rahul Gandhi in Bihar)"Atal Bihari Vajpayee was given a chance to run the country for six years and in these few years, he gave employment to 65 crore people in the country," Mr Modi claimed.
He added, "(Former prime minister) Lal Bahadur Shastri had said
'Jai Jawan, Jai Kishan' but this mother-son run government's slogan seems to be '
mar jawan, mar kishan' as more farmers committed suicide (during their regime) than soldiers killed so far under this government".
(India Votes 2014: Coverage)"It is time both mother and son stopped telling lies as they cannot continue to fool people forever," he added.