Live reporting: Rahul lashes out at Modi, says killers of Gandhi want to erect Patel statue

Bardoli (Gujarat): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today lashed out at the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, saying his entire life was in RSS, and the RSS though led to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Addressing a huge rally in Bardoli, the birthplace of Sardar Patel, Gandhi lashed out at Modi saying, he has never read about Gandhi and Patel, makes too many mistakes in history, and now wants to erect a statue of Sardar Patel. Here is the live reporting of Rahul Gandhi's rally in Bardoli: 2:34 pm: Modi wears an Assamese gamocha. Local leaders put a big bamboo hat on his head, offer him a statuette of a Kaziranga rhinoceros, amidst "huluhuli" (welcoming whistle blown during ausipicious occasions) made by Assamese women. On the background of the dais is written in Assamese "Mahajagaran Samabesh" (Awakening Rally)2:11 pm: Rahul Gandhi ends his speech.2:10 pm: In the whole of India, there are chaiwallahs who sell tea, there are taxi drivers. We should respect chaiwallas, we should respect farmers and workers, but we should not respect those who fools us (hamein ulloo banaate hain), the crowd breaks into applause. 2:06 pm: Gujarat government is a government of rich people. We speak of Garibi Hatao, they speak of Garib hatao. They want to finish off the poor people : Rahul2:05 pm: In the entire history of India, never have 14 crore of people come above the poverty level, as during the UPA rule, and in Gujarat they have fixed Rs 11 earning per day as the poverty cutoff line. 38 lakh poor families live below poverty level in Gujarat. 13,000 schools lie closed in Gujarat : Rahul2:04 pm: 6,000 farmers have died in Gujarat. Nearly 40,000 farmers came to me and were weeping. The BJP leaders never speak about the woes of farmers in Punjab, where their ally Akali Badal is ruling. We condoned Rs 70,000 crore loans of farmers : Rahul 2:03 pm: Tell me how many convicted ministers he (Modi) has in his Cabinet. Three. They go to jail, and then come and become ministers ; rahul 2:02 pm: Congress got the Lokpal bill passed in Parliament. Here he (Modi) stopped the appointment of Lokayukta for nine years. The whole of Gujarat and India knows how much respect he (Modi) has for women : Rahul2:01 pm: BJP leaders find corruption throughout India, but they do not find corruption in Gujarat. Congress gave the people RTI. Under RTI, there should be 10 commissioners, but there is only one commissioner in Gujarat and that too, when the court intervened.2 pm: Throughout my life, I strived to work for the poor : Rahul1:59 pm: He (Modi) says whatever he wants on stage, whether its true or false. He speaks of Congress-mukt Bharat (Congress-free India). I say, Congress is not an organisation, Congress is a thought process. Gandhiji and Patel gave their entire lives for this thought.1:58 pm: After Gandhi's assassination, Sardar Patel wanted to ban RSS, Now the person who spent his entire life in RSS, wants to erect Patel's statue : Rahul1:57 pm: "Let me ask you which ideology killed Gandhi, it was RSS ideology which killed Gandhi" : Rahul1:56 pm: Let me tell you what Gandhi and Patel said about RSS: "RSS has a poisonous ideology which can destroy India's soul". This man lived his entire life in RSS and now wants to erect a statue of Patel : Rahul1:55 pm: But the leadership in Gujarat now claims to erect Patel's statue. but their leader do not know history. He never studied Gandhi and Patel's books,. 1:54 pm: Congress ideology is based on love and all-inclusive. Whatever Gandhi, Patel said, the Congress did. 1:30 pm: Rahul pays respects to Sardar Patel at Swaraj Asharam, accompanied by Arjun Modhwadia.12:30 pm: Rahul leads padyatra of Youth Congress in Bardoli. thousands participate.