MEERUT: BJP 's PM candidate Narendra Modi hit out at the AAP government in Delhi at a rally in Meerut on Sunday, along with his characteristic jibes at the Samajwadi Party government in the state and the Congress duo of party president Sonia Gandhi and scion Rahul Gandhi Addressing a large gathering at the Shatabdi Nagar grounds, Modi sought to link last year's riots and the plight of sugarcane farmers in western UP with the larger malaise of misgovernance, corruption and lack of law and order. In a similar vein, but without naming Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal or his AAP, Modi said the country was shamed when Ugandan women were mistreated a few days ago, girls from Manipur were harassed and a youth from Arunachal Pradesh was killed in the city.Delhi's law minister Somnath Bharti had come in for sharp criticism for alleged vigilantism in the incident involving Ugandan women. BJP spokespersons have continued to dismiss as unworthy of Modi's attention the AAP, which has announced plans of contesting all 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP, besides other states, after its spectacular debut in Delhi assembly polls in December."Meerut needs good roads, airport and 24-hour power in its villages. But are you getting it?" Modi asked the responsive crowd. The British had neglected Meerut because it was the birthplace of the 1857 war of independence, but the Congress has neglected Meerut because it does not wish to acknowledge the sacrifice of the martyrs, he said.Modi lauded the late Chaudhary Charan Singh and late Chaudhary Mahendra Singh Tikait as the only two leaders who had worked honestly for the welfare of farmers in the region. The BJP leader said the farmers in the region were crushed while the mill owners were happy under the corrupt government in the state.Criticising the Akhilesh Yadav-led government for worsening law and order situation, Modi said crime had risen 250% in the state over the past two years. "Of the total Arms Act cases registered in the country, UP's share has been 45%," he said.In his 48-minute speech, peppered with barbs at the Gandhis and SP chief Maulayam Singh Yadav, Modi said his detractors should compete with him not in terms of numbers of rally and crowds but in providing 24-hour power supply and riot-free environment as he had done as Gujarat CM. "UP mein bijli ka jaana khabar nahin hai, bijli aa jaaye to khabar hai. (Power cut is no news in UP, power supply is)," he quipped. Responding to SP chief's recent remark that UP's public welfare budget was more than Gujarat's entire budget, Modi retorted, "Netaji, if that were so, where has the money gone? Why is Gujarat's voter happy today and not the UP's voter?""The Congress is playing a new RaGa," he said. "You ask them one question, they answer quite another. When you ask them, ‘Soniaji! Why are farmers committing suicide?' she says, ‘some people are sowing poison in the country'. I wish to remind the Congress leaders that when we separated Uttarakhand from UP, both states were happy because we sowed love, not poison. And when you created Telangana from Andhra Pradesh, both state have been set on fire, because you sowed hatred, you sowed poison."