Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today raked up the issue of Narendra Modi's marriage to attack BJP, saying that while the party made claims of ensuring safety of women, it took several elections for its Prime Ministerial candidate to mention the name of his wife in the poll affidavit.

Addressing a gathering at Doda in Jammu and Kashmir, he said nobody knows how many elections he has contested till now, but he has revealed for the first time that he is married. He said Modi talks about honour of women, but his own wife's name did not find a mention in the affidavit so far.Modi has for the first time declared himself as a married man by revealing his wife's name as Jashodaben in an affidavit filed before the Election Commission along with his nomination
papers for Vadodara Lok Sabha seat.

In previous elections, Modi used to leave the column of spouse blank in the affidavit. He had also kept the column as blank in the 2012 Gujarat Assembly elections. Hitting out at the BJP government in Chhatisgarh, Rahul Gandhi claimed that he had gone to Chhattisgarh where he had been told that 20,000 women were missing.