Using cyclone Ockhi as a metaphor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at his opponents on Wednesday saying that on the land of Mahatma Gandhi, even big cyclones wither away.
With barely days to go for the first phase polling on Saturday, December 9, the Prime Minister mocked at the Congress' campaign of 'Congress Ave Che' (Congress is coming) referring to the cyclone Ockhi, which dissipated over the Arabian Sea against the fears of a devastating impact on making a landfall in South Gujarat.
A relieved Prime Minister, whose public rally in Surat had to be postponed on Thursday due to Ockhi, stated that "This is the land of (Mahatma) Gandhi. What-so-ever powerful storm it may be, withers away calmly. People said it is coming, coming, coming.. but never came. In Banaras also it didn't come, not even in Uttar Pradesh it came," he said in an apparent reference to the Congress amid cheers from the crowd at Dhandhuka in Ahmedabad district on Wednesday.
Congress has been aggressively making its poll campaign both on social media and offline. In the past few days, the increased support to Congress from the youth and the Patidar reservation supporters has become a cause for concern for the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), which is eyeing the continuation of its 22-year rule.