Extending outside support impractical, utopian: Digvijay

Singh said he has never seen so much of money being spent in any election campaign as the ongoing one. 

“And it's now obvious that the corporates have opened their coffers personally to Narendra Modi. Why? Because Narendra Modi symbolises crony capitalism where the capitalists have been given a free run at the expense of labourers and farmers in Gujarat,” he said. 

Singh claimed that highest number of man-days lost in any industry in any state is in Gujarat, where there has been maximum labour unrest and even in the diamond-cutting industry which is the traditional trade, there has been a lay-off. 

“So, whatever people may say about the Gujarat model of development, it is a development for the haves at the cost of the have nots.”

Asked if preventing Modi from becoming Prime Minister is the prime objective of the Congress now, Singh said, “Modi is not an issue with us.