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Campaign heats up for Lok Sabha polls

BJP releases 'charge sheet' on UPA's misrule; Sonia urges voters not to elect 'a big liar' as PM

Agencies
Indian poll rivals intensified their attacks on each other yesterday as the country' braces for a record breaking election, what will be the biggest democratic exercise in history, tomorrow.
After 10 years of leftist rule by Congress and the Gandhi family dynasty, surveys show the young and increasingly aspirational electorate, worried about jobs and angry about corruption, yearning for change.
Upping the ante against the ruling party, The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) charged the Congress with corruption, destruction of economy, price rise and messing with the foreign policy in a chargesheet against the LIPA government released yesterday.
BJP also targeted Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi.
"Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi a re eq u a 11 y resp o n s i b 1 e fb r a 111 h e i 11 s o f India along with (prime minister) Manmohan Singh because they wanted to exercise authority without accountability," party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said after releasing the chargesheet.
While its manifesto will come only tomorrow, the first day of polling, the party said reminding the voters about the history is as important as the poll promises.
"It is important to remind people of the history of the LIPA (United Progressive Alliance) government," Prasad said.
The BJP also downplayed the delay in releasing its manifesto, calling it an issue of logistics. "It is a logistics issue. Our party leaders are busy in campaigns," Prasad said.
He used the opportunity to take a dig at the Congress without naming the party. "Those who are going to get the farewell have hurried up with their manifesto."
Meanwhile, in one of her strongest attacks on BJP's prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi yesterday asked the people not to elect "a big liar" as the country's next prime minister.
Without taking Modi's name, Sonia told an election rally in Jharkhand that some opposition leaders were selling dreams, as if "they will change everything in one day with a magic wand".
"Will the country choose a person who is a big liar as a prime minister?" she said at Ramgarh in Hazaribagh district.
"In a democracy, just anyone should not be allowed to grab power."
And in an appeal to coal workers, she also said that it was former prime minister Indira Gandhi who nationalised the coal mines in order to improve the lot of the labourers. She detailed the achievements of the Congress-led UPAgovernment in the last 10 years.