'Modi wave' coming from every home in India: PM, steps up attack on Cong

Crisscrossing three Hindi heartland states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday said a 'Modi wave' is coming from every home in India and also escalated the attack on Congress president Rahul Gandhi over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

As the row over Gandhi's close aide Sam Pitroda's 'hua to hua' (it happened, so what) remark on the Sikh killings refused to die, Modi asked the Congress president to be "ashamed" of himself rather than pretending to scold the technocrat-turned politician.

Modi also accused the previous Congress governments of using defence deals as an automated teller machine (ATM) for the party.

The prime minister was addressing rallies in Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh, Solan in Himachal Pradesh and Bathinda in Punjab which are going to polls in the seventh and final phase on May 19.

Modi sought to dismiss "claims by pundits and planted reports from Delhi" that there is no "Modi wave" in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections like in 2014 polls.

"The (Modi) wave is coming out from each