Modi campaign started in Gujarat

Launching a month-long campaign in poll-bound Gujarat, Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday accused Congress of "misusing" the CBI to target him and also demanded that the Prime Minister face a SIT probe in the coal block allocation scam.

Seeking a fourth term in office, the BJP stalwart also slammed the Congress for "attacking the constitutional authorities", accusing it of whipping up an atmosphere of anger against the Government auditor CAG like it did against the Supreme Court in the 2G spectrum allocation case.

Signalling that he would fight the coming polls on the plank of "injustice meted out to Gujarat", Mr Modi struck an aggressive tone to kickstart his 2012 month-long campaign through Swami Vivekananda Yuva Vikas Yatra from the holy town of Becharaji in Mehsana.

Taking a dig at Congress' poll ad-campaign in Gujarat, Mr Modi said, "There are advertisements on television ninety times a day- 'disha badlo, dasha badlegi'. But what disha (direction) is this? The same disha of Delhi?"

"Do you want the same durdasha of Delhi in Gujarat? Corruption, curfew-- do you want all this? Gujarat does not want to see it now," Mr Modi said.

Mr Jaitely said under the Congress-led UPA government, corruption had reached its zenith and all developmental work had come to a standstill.

"The term 'policy paralysis' has been used for the first time in the country for this government," Mr Jaitely said.

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