Narendra Modi's rallies in Karnataka: As it happened

Zee Media Bureau/Supriya Jha

03: 54 pm: Deve Gouda ji is like my father. He claimed that he will leave Karnataka, if I win. I welcome him to Gujarat where I will serve him better than his own sons. - Modi.

03: 53 pm: If Karnataka wants, it can save the entire nation. This time, Karnataka should not let the Congress party open its account - Modi.

03: 50 pm: Modi says that just to buy time till her son Rahul gets ready for the PM chair, Sonia entitled someone like Manmohan Singh with the Prime Minister's responsibility at the cost of country's future

03: 45 pm: "Recently, a book released by PM Manmohan Singh's aide (Sanjaya Baru) says that he has been an accidental PM and that the government was being run by Soniaji. If two scooters collide, just a couple of people will die. If two trains collide, some three hundred people will die, but if the country's PM is accidental, then the nation's 1.25 bilion people will suffer damages - Modi.

03: 40 pm: If you want the country's welfare, if you want the farmer's welfare, vote for the BJP, says Modi.

03: 35 pm: Our Manifesto has dwelled extensively on justice to farmers including processes for Minimum selling Price (MSP), says Modi.

03: 30 pm: The Congress is sometimes building its A team, sometimes a B team. It has happened for the first time that alliances are being made not to defeat the ruling party but to stop Modi, says Gujarat CM.

03: 20 pm: Modi addressing another rally in Karnataka's Haveri.

02: 10 pm: Modi concludes his speech.

02: 05 pm: What kind of government do you want, Modi asks the jubilant crowd of Chikmagalur. The crowd erupts unanimously in a chant of "Modi sarkar". To which Modi says, "I didn't ask, whose government, I asked what kind of government".

02: 03 pm: If you want to stay in an Old Age home or a farm or in a house, I will make all the arrangements, adds Narendra Modi further taking a dig on Deve Gowda.

02: 00 pm: Modi mocks Deve Gowda's claim that said he will leave Karnataka in case Gujarat CM became PM. Modi said Deve Gowda was welcome in Gujarat.

"Deve Gowda ji says if Modi becomes PM I will leave Karnataka. He is like a father- if you have to leave Karnataka come to Gujarat," said Modi.

01: 50 pm: I am going to meet Rajnikanth today, will wish him the Tamil New Year, says Modi.

01: 48 pm: Modi asks the people of Chikmagalur that did any thing good happen to them during ten years of Sonia Gandhi's governance.

"Ten years is a very long time but Madam (Sonia) and Shahzada (Rahul) are concernede just about the chair and nothing else," says Modi.

01: 45 pm: Good Governance and development are my two main mottos, says Modi.

01: 42 pm: We have a special connection. I am a tea seller and have come to you coffee walas - says Narendra Modi.

01: 40 pm: Modi says Chikmagalur's people supported Indira Gandhi during her worst times. Modi promises that he will deliver 10 times more than what Indira Gandhi did.

01: 38 pm: Mocking Indira Gandhi's slogan - "Ek sherni, sau langur (one lioness, hundred apes) Chikmagalur, Chikmagalur,”, Modi said that the lioness Indira had departed leaving only apes in the Congress party.

01: 30 pm: Modi starts addressing a rally in Karnataka's Chikmagalur