Live reporting: Sonia, Rahul reject opinion polls, say Modi balloon will explode, release manifesto

1:47 pm: question on opinion polls and Varanasi candidate.  Sonia: Most certainly we are going to challenge the Varanasi seat. we have not decided,. why should we not challenge?  How confident we are of winning the elections? Is that the question.

Opinion polls have been proved wrong again and again. In 2004, story of Congress was finished. Story of Congress continued. Similarly in 2009, we were going to lose, we got bigger number of seats. This proves we cannot go 100 per cent on surveys.

I am quite confident we will do well, and our people are ready to fight and many have already started the fight, and we will win.

1:44 pm: First question on corruption.  PM replies: The BJP attacked me because BJP felt that I was a weak PM and that under their constant criticism I will run away from the job that the Congress party has entrusted me. I have proved them wrong and therefore there is no reason for anyone to believe that the BJP had substance in what it set out to argue.

Corruption is an issue in a developing economy, corruption cannot be wished away, but every effort must be made to come out which gives rise to corruption.