Corporate sector fuelling Modi's campaign: Sibal

When asked whether the corporate sector or the media was being paid out by Modi, he said: “I did not say that.” “Rs 2.50 lakh per plate for dinner.

Is that not something which tells you what business community wants? They want freebies from Modi as he has given them in Gujarat.

That's why they are backing him. The fact of the matter is the business community in Gujarat, especially groups to whom he has given freebies, is the one fuelling the campaign,” he said.  But he refused to name anyone. “I am not talking about any individual,” he said.

Responding to a question on people laughing off Rahul Gandhi's claim that Congress would do better than the 2009 polls, Sibal said, “what he said, why he said, what was in his mind when he said so, whether it is right or wrong, I am not going to comment.

“But I am a little surprised people laughed at it, because that shows a sense of arrogance.