"We have a lot of respect for the soldiers and the martyrs. Even Modiji, in his speeches, highlighted the plight of families of the martyrs," he added.
In his Mandi rally, Modi said, "Today, I ask you to make the Lotus (BJP poll symbol) win 300 seats because "Yeh Dil Maange More" just like Vikram Batra, who sacrificed his life for the country in the Kargil war, using the same call.
In an obvious reference to recent attacks on him by Congress, he said ruling party has sensed defeat and is stooping to new lows to target him.
"As a Chief Minister for the last 12 years, there is no stain on me. My Congress friends have filed all kinds of PILs against me in courts. I have come out of this like gold... I am baffled. You have had to stoop to such level. You have such a big government. Were you sleeping so far? Why did not you hang Modi," he said.
Congress had recently attacked him over his alleged links with a hawala dealer and been targeting him for benefiting select businessmen in Gujarat.
"Congress is rattled. I know they have lost the game. People are determined to finish you off," he said.
The BJP's prime ministerial candidate said the vested group which prospered and expanded under the watch of Congress regimes in the last 60 years have launched a "ferocious one-sided" attack on him.
He alleged that the UPA government was trying to suppress his voice by "forcing" the media not to show his speeches live as they used to earlier.
Attacking the "maa-beta" government, he said no dispensation has received so many stricture from the Supreme Court as this one and it instead of following its order insulted it.
