Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh surprised many when he said he was elated to learn that Modi was increasingly leaning towards secularism at least in his speeches and seem to be giving up the path of hardline thinking.Singh said he was happy to know that Modi's thinking was coming closer to former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee or the Nehruvian line of thought.Digvijaya Singh and Bharatiya Janata Party vice-president Smriti Irani were in conversation with Aaj Tak and Headline Today editor-at-large Rahul Kanwal at the second day of Agenda AajTak 2013, a two-day conclave in Delhi which began on Wednesday.However, Singh said he was not happy with the way the rehabilitation of the 2002 Gujarat riot victims was done.Singh said he was not worried about the trends emerging out the recent Assembly polls since he found no connect between the Assembly polls in five states and the 2014 General Elections.While the actor-turned-politician was confident that a Modi-led government would form the government at the Centre in 2014, Singh said he never believed in trends emerging out of opinion and exit polls. He said he saw no harm in a chaiwallah in becoming the PM which, he said, showed the strength of a democracy. Singh added though that the country will never accept Modi, given his communal image, as the PM of the country.Irani said she was surprised that Singh and the Congress had failed to read the mood of the public evident from these opinion and exit polls in the semifinals before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.The Congress general secretary insisted that other than Goa and Gujarat, the Congress had snatched power from the BJP in four states since the 2009 Lok Sabha polls. He said it was still a long wait before the country went for LS polls and politics could see major changes anytime.On the question of Congress's dirty tricks department, as alleged by Arun Jaitley, Singh said the BJP had shed its earlier image of being "party with a difference" and was revolving around a single person (Narendra Modi).Irani countered this with the Congress's own personality cult which has always revolved around a single family.Singh alleged that Modi's sudden rise had been at the expense of thousands of saffron party cadre whose tireless labour has contributed to the rise of the party.Singh denied that the Congress was not a party of the family and a fine example of this was Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh himself.Singh sought to establish the Congress as a secular party which has fought communal forces for more than hundred years. Irani countered this, saying that the minority had been at the receiving end because of the Congress's wrong policies.On the allegations that the BJP had issued circulars asking the minority members to attend Modi's rallies wearing skull caps and burqas, Irani said the BJP had already issued an explanation regarding this.Irani alleged that the Congress government in Kerala had issued an official circular on June 14 which targeted minority girls. Singh said he did not have any knowledge about this but would condemn this if this was true.Singh that an example of the Congress's secularism is acceptance of Satyamev Jayate as the government's motto. Hinting at the involvement of Hindu extremism, he alleged that the two major incidents since Independence-Mahatma Gandhi's assassination and demolition of Babri Mosque in Ayodhya-had changed the meaning of secularism for the country.Seeking to justify Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's controversial remarks regarding Muzzafarnagar riot victims, Singh said Gandhi was only referring to extremist thinking which, he said, cannot rule in this country.Irani said the 2014 polls would be fought on the issues of corruption and inflation and not religion.On the controversy surrounding snoopgate, Irani said the authenticity of this tape was yet to be established and she would not like to comment on this issue.She said "Saheb" mentioned in those tapes cannot be confirmed to be Narendra Modi.Singh contradicted this, saying that then Gujarat home minister Amit Shah had himself admitted on record that he had given orders for spying on the woman. Singh wondered if this was not violation of the Indian Telegraph Act and if all women in the state were given this kind of security.Irani countered this and said the woman was not the victim since she had never lodged any complaint anywhere.She said a judicial commission had been formed in Gujarat to probe this incident.