Modi hits back at Sonia

SURAT: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, reacting to the charges of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, on Sunday said it is the grand old party which is 'hand in glove' with 'maut ke saudagar' (merchants of death).
    
"The main conspirator of the Parliament attack case Afzal Guru has been awarded death sentence by the Supreme Court, but ruling Congress (led UPA Government) has not hanged him for the last one and half years," he said addressing an election rally here.
    
Earlier Sonia Gandhi, at a public meeting on Saturday in Navsari district, had described the Modi government as "dishonest and merchants of death".
    
"Why is the government of Sonia Gandhi trying to save a terrorist like Afzal Guru? This shows who is with the merchants of deaths. I have been fighting these merchants of deaths while Congress is with them," the BJP leader remarked.
    
The Chief Minister said Gandhi called Gujarat the land of Godse. "This is the land of Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhai Patel. To call it a land of Godse is an insult to the great tradition of the state. People of Gujarat will teach Congress a lesson in the coming elections," Modi stated.