Congress President Sonia Gandhi today took on BJP leader Narendra Modi in his bastion questioning his Gujarat development model. Addressing a rally at Valsad , Gujarat she asked voters not to elect the forces whose ideology hinges on hardline thinking and hatred.

Accusing Modi of being concerned only about his chair and not the people, the Congress president said the state has the highest dropout rate in the country and does not consider a family poor if its income is more than 11 rupees, a day.

Sonia Gandhi said that this year's elections is being fought between two ideologies and appealed to voters to shun forces which nurture radical views of narrow-mindedness, discrimination and hatred. She said BJP is such an ideology.

She said it dances to the tune of an organisation which does not believe in common heritage – 'Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb. She said BJP's ideology smacks of cruelty which is harmful for the nation.On the contray, she said Congress ideology seeks to unite the nation and brings in amity between different faiths and religion.

Sonia Gandhi said that her party believes in a strong democratic set up where everyone is treated as equals in the society. She said Congress is fighting for all sections of thesociety and has promised many schemes and programmes for their welfare in its 2014 manifesto.