Live reporting: Rahul Gandhi lashes out at BJP, says its leaders are corrupt

1:33 pm: India's strength lies in its youth, its poor. Unless they stand on their own feet, India cannot progress.

1:30 pm: Rahul Gandhi begins speech. Karnataka has progressed very fast, in IT and other sectors. Congress  has been taking Karnataka on the road to progress in last 60 years. Congress set up HAL, BHEL in Bangalore first. our party fought for poor people, and our former CM Devraj Urs struggled for the poor and Dalit. He laid the base for the progress through 20-point programme. In 1980, Rajiv Gandhi started speaking about introducing computers. At that time, he was made fun of, and BJP in Parliament warned that it will render lakhs of people unemployed. Today you see with your own eyes how lakhs of youths are working in IT sector. 

12:59 pm: Rahul Gandhi reaches public meeting venue.