Narendra Modi dares Sonia for public debate on Gujarat

'People know who divided this country. Who spread havoc in Andhra Pradesh, who has given a separate state status to Jammu and Kashmir and who separated states on linguistic basis.

Who instigated fight between IB and CBI? People know who had played divisive politics in the country and Madam Soniaji your are doubting my integrity and my patriotism. For you India may be ‘matra-Bhumi' (just a land) but for me it is a matru-bhumi (mother land),' Modi said.

'The Prime minister has formed a committee to discuss the issue of poverty but for three years this committee has not met,” he said, referring to UPA's claims on poverty removal.

He also asked whether Rahul and Sonia Gandhi wanted to start 'poverty-based tourism' in the country.

Earlier, addressing her first election rally in Gujarat which goes to polls on April 30, Sonia Gandhi had torn into Modi's much-touted Gujarat development model and appealed to the people to reject the “divisive” ideology of RSS-BJP.