In Raipur, Rahul raked up "snoopgate" controversy to lash out at Narendra Modi saying the BJP's PM nominee is so desperate for power that he can even "divide the nation" to achieve his goal.
Addressing a rally at Karhibadar village in Balod district in Kanker Lok Sabha constituency, Rahul said, "Modi wants to become PM and he can do anything for it. He will divide the nation."
Referring to alleged surveillance on a woman architect by cops in Gujarat, Rahul said, "What kind of women empowerment they talk about. If women are being sexually exploited, policemen are sent behind women and their phone being tapped. BJP talks about women empowerment. But everybody can see what kind of empowerment it is."
"Tribal women and minor girls are raped. The Gujarat chief minister sent policemen behind women, he asked to tap women's phones," he said.
Narendra Modi, on the other hand, compared the conditions under the "dynastic politics" to those during the Mughal era.
"Due to the dynastic politics, the ordinary people today are living in the way people lived under the regime of Mughals," Modi said, addressing a rally here in western Maharashtra.
Further, targeting Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, he said, "Shehzade-ji, Madam Sonia-ji, once the slogan was 'Jai Jawan Jai Kisan'; today the jawans and the kisans (farmers) are dying. What have you given the country in 60 years? Now your slogan is 'mar jawan, mar kisan' (kill jawan, kill kisan)."
He said the leaders of the ruling Congress and NCP in Maharashtra always talked about King Shivaji without really understanding what he stood for.
"If they really wanted to learn something from him, he had created an excellent example by making water available to the farmers. They could have learnt from him."
On farmers' suicides in Maharashtra, Modi said, "When there is a hailstorm, farmers die, when there is a drought, farmers die ... Two to three people in one family are committing suicide. My heart pains for these farmers."
Attacking BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Rahul said everything is "consolidated" in Modi's hand in the BJP.
"In BJP, only one person knows everything about the world. If anything happens in the country, only that person knows it. They think only (that) person will change the country," the Congress vice-president said.
Rahul also took potshots at Modi over his "chowkidar" pitch and over recent heartburn in senior party leaders LK Advani and Jaswant Singh over their choice of Lok Sabha seats.
"Wah chowkidari ki baat karte hai ... Unke bade neta hai Advaniji aur Jaswant Singhji. Unse puchhiye chowkidari kaise hui aur unka kya hua (He talks about becoming 'chowkidar'. Ask their (BJP's) senior leaders Advaniji and Jaswantji of this 'chowkidari' and what happened to them," Rahul said.
He said BJP was involved in "communalism and is dividing the nation in the name of religion".
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