MORBI: Continuing his high decibel campaign in poll-bound Gujarat, PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday attacked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for calling GST ‘Gabbar Singh Tax’ and said those who looted the country could only think of dacoits.In a stinging rebuttal to Gandhi’s repeated criticism of GST, a key economic reform of the NDA government , Modi said a recently emerged “economist” was propagating a “grand stupid thought” by suggesting that GST rate be capped at 18%.Making a fresh bid for power in his home state, where BJP has ruled for over two decades, Modi also listed various development works by the government on water conservation, agriculture and development of the Saurashtra region.Addressing a huge rally in Morbi town in the region, which goes to polls in the first phase on December 9, he accused Congress of taking credit for minor schemes like providing handpumps, while saying that BJP rule brought in major works like the Narmada project.Making a strong appeal to the people to vote for BJP in this Patidar community stronghold, Modi said his party should not be voted out for 100 years. “Today, some so-called smart people, some new economists have emerged who are misleading people,” he declared in his speech in Gujarati.“Those who have looted people throughout their life, they can only remember dacoits,” Modi said in a reply to Gandhi’s ‘Gabbar Singh Tax’ jibe, recalling the iconic villain from the Bollywood blockbuster “Sholay”. He said Gandhi was propagating a ‘grand stupid thought’ in the name of GST, telling people that they will slash all tax rates and make it 18%.This means 18% tax on salt and 18% tax on luxury cars costing Rs 5 crore, he noted. “What kind of smartness is this... how has such an economist emerged here. You want to make goods used by the poor like clothes, footwear and food costlier and you want to make cigarettes and liquor cheaper,” he said, ripping into the “anti-poor” Congress over its criticism of the tax reform.The prime minister went on to say that making cigarettes cheaper means bringing cancer in every home and asked which rich businessmen the opposition leader sought to benefit by making liquor cheaper. “The Congress’ development model was giving hand-pumps. For BJP it is the SAUNI scheme (the Narmada water project for Saurashtra region), where we will fill dams of Saurashtra through huge pipelines.”