Toffee Model

Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Tuesday latched on to a Commerce and Industry Ministry-sponsored report to slam Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, saying they have nowhere to go after "toffee model" of Gujarat's land acquisition policy was adjudged as the best practice by their own government.

It reflects a flawed understanding of growth, writes Sanjay Jha.

An aggressive rebuke by Rahul Gandhi today sponsored a new political controversy with the BJP issuing a sharp retort. Mr Gandhi, 43, in an unusually direct comment about his political opponent, said today, "Modi-ji, Hindustan ko ullu banana bandh karo (stop fooling the people of the country)."

He repeated earlier claims that Mr Modi sacrifices the interest of the common man for big business in his home state

Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi for dubbing Gujarat development model as a 'toffee model', Narendra Modi today compared the Congress Vice President with children and said the word 'toffee' has caught his fancy after he repeatedly spoke about 'balloon'.

Attacking Rahul Gandhi for terming the Gujarat model of development a "toffee model", BJP prime ministerial candidates Narendra Modi on Monday said the Congress vice president lacks a mature brain and thinks like a child.

In a blistering attack on Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi today dubbed the Gujarat model propagated by Mr Modi as a "toffee model", saying it has benefited only one industrialist in the state, ignoring the interests of the farmers and the poor.

Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Tuesday latched on to a Commerce and Industry Ministry-sponsored report to slam Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, saying they have nowhere to go after "toffee model" of Gujarat's land acquisition policy was adjudged as the best practice by their own government.

It reflects a flawed understanding of growth, writes Sanjay Jha.

An aggressive rebuke by Rahul Gandhi today sponsored a new political controversy with the BJP issuing a sharp retort. Mr Gandhi, 43, in an unusually direct comment about his political opponent, said today, "Modi-ji, Hindustan ko ullu banana bandh karo (stop fooling the people of the country)."

He repeated earlier claims that Mr Modi sacrifices the interest of the common man for big business in his home state

Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi for dubbing Gujarat development model as a 'toffee model', Narendra Modi today compared the Congress Vice President with children and said the word 'toffee' has caught his fancy after he repeatedly spoke about 'balloon'.

Attacking Rahul Gandhi for terming the Gujarat model of development a "toffee model", BJP prime ministerial candidates Narendra Modi on Monday said the Congress vice president lacks a mature brain and thinks like a child.

In a blistering attack on Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi today dubbed the Gujarat model propagated by Mr Modi as a "toffee model", saying it has benefited only one industrialist in the state, ignoring the interests of the farmers and the poor.