Attacking BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on his home turf, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today accused his government of stealing farmers' land and charged the BJP with appropriating credit for schemes launched by the Congress-led UPA. Without directly naming the Gujarat Chief Minister, Gandhi also alluded that Modi works like Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and attacked him for retaining corrupt ministers in his state cabinet while talking tall of fighting corruption.

Addressing a rally in Balasinor, the first destination of his tour programme in Gujarat, Rahul Gandhi said, stealing the land of farmers is called theft and not chowkidari.

Seeking to draw a parallel between BJP's India Shining Campaign in 2004 Lok Sabha polls and its focus on Gujarat's development under Modi, Gandhi said it is being publicised in the whole country that Gujarat shines but its sheen is limited to few industrialists and the poor have not benefited from it.