UPA Chairperson and Congress President Sonia Gandhi has charged BJP with sowing seeds of poison in its hunger for power. Addressing a public rally in Gulbarga, Karnataks today she attacked BJP and its Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi saying they are indulging in divisive politics. She said their only motive was to gain power by any means.

In an apparent reference to Modi, she said those who are busy beating their own drums continuously, cannot do good to the nation. On the other hand, she said, Congress is concerned about the removal of poverty and bringing self-respect to the poor. Sonia Gandhi also said Congress was engaged in fighting corruption and therefore it brought into force the Right to Information Act and Lok Pal Act.

BJP reacted sharply to Gandhi's remarks, with party spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy saying that Congress will meet in 2014 the same fate as it got in 2007 after such remarks against Narendra Modi.