@narendramodi My son has just married a Gujarati, @narendramodi ji. We have nothing but love for your state &its people. — Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) 1508175791000

NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday responded with a message of "love" a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleged the party had "special hatred" for Gujarat and denied the people of the state their due."My son has just married a Gujarati, Narendra Modi ji. We have nothing but love for your state and its people," Tharoor said in a tweet.Tharoor's son Ishaan, a foreign affairs witer at the Washington Post, recently tied the knot with fellow journalist Bhumika Dave in the US.The Congress MP's riposte came in response to the fierce salvos directed against his party by PM Modi at a saffron rally in poll-bound Gujarat.Accusing the Congress of being anti-Gujarat, the Prime Minister claimed the party had done nothing for the state's development in the last 70 years and had also slighted prominent Gujarati leaders."Gujarat has been an eyesore for the party and the family. I won't repeat what they did to Sardar Patel , his daughter Maniben and Morarji Desai ," he said at a 'Gujarat Gaurav Sammelan' in Gandhinagar on Monday.The BJP and Congress have been engaged in war of words ahead of the high-octane electoral battle for Gujarat where the saffron party holds sway. While the BJP has been rattling its sabre of development, Congress has rolled out the 'Vikas gando thayo che (development has gone crazy)' campaign on social media and at public meetings to run down the ruling party's development plank.PM Modi, who has been projected as 'vikas purush' by his supporters, also dared Congress to fight elections on the development agenda."I had expected them to fight this election on the issue of development, but they are not doing that. Now they have decided to belittle Gujarat's development," he jibed.