Modi flays Congress, assures traders on GST in Gandhinagar: Key highlights

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday dared the Congress to contest the Gujarat Assembly election on the development plank while addressing a massive rally in what is likely to be his last speech at a big public rally before the Election Commission’s model code of conduct kicks in.

Sounding the poll bugle, the Prime Minister mounted a fierce attack on the Congress during the public meeting, which comes on the heels of the Gujarat government announcing a series of sops.

While PM Modi said the Gujarat election was a fight between "vikasvaad" (development politics) and "vanshvaad" (dynasty politics), BJP President Amit Shah made it clear that the party was seeking votes in the name of the Prime Minister to retain power in Gujarat, and set a target of over three-fourths majority in the 182-member Assembly.

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Modi and Shah were in Ahmedabad to address the Gujarat Gaurav Mahasammelan rally, which concluded the Gujarat Gaurav Yatra that the party had launched across the state on October 1.
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