NEW DELHI: The BJP refused to get apologetic about the language used by its Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in his public rallies in Chhattisgarh and instead said that it was the Congress party that had “sunk the level of public discourse by its use of objectionable language against Modi.”“Congress is our oldest political party and has more than its share of responsibility on where public discourse is headed. They have not shied away from using words like bicchoo (scorpion), maut ka saudagar or even levelled casteist remarks at him,” party spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said Friday.This, he said, was not a spontaneous expression of opinion but a strategy to paint Narendra Modi in a certain light.“For long, the Congress and its allies have been using words like Nazi and dictator and Adolf Hitler’s name to describe Modi,” he said. “It is ironic that this is so. In 1933, at the screening of the Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will, Hitler’s henchman Rudolf Hess had proclaimed that ‘Germany was Hitler and Hitler was Germany’. This has an eerie echo to what Devkanta Barooah, Congress president in 1975, said about India being Indira and vice a versa,” he added.“So which is the party with dictatorial, Nazi tendencies?” he asked.Modi continued his pointed attacks against both UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and her son, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi.Mocking Rahul Gandhi's habit of rolling up his sleeves, Modi said that he was talking of changing the system when it had been created by members of his family.“In the first place, he should know that the system was made by his father ( Rajiv Gandhi ), his grandmother ( Indira Gandhi ) and great grandfather ( Jawaharlal Nehru ) for 60 years during their rule. “It is they who made the system. It is they who distorted it and misused it for their personal gains. When they know that it is the time to go, they are talking about systems.”