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"When development takes place, highways are made, universities are built, electricity is supplied, then all the sections of society are benefited."The game of trying to split the state along caste lines is extremely dangerous," Jaitley, who is the in-charge of Gujarat polls, said. All other states of the country where poison of casteism has been spread have lagged way behind in development," he said, denouncing the Congresss attempt to woo caste leaders like Hardik Patel, Jignesh Mevani and Alpesh Thakor. Development fights poverty, it fights backwardness but they are making fun of it," Jaitley said.

"This time I find the situation very strange.He further accused the Congress of spreading the poison of casteism. Development helps all," he said."In this developing part of India, if you are trying to denigrate development or win elections on the basis of dividing people along caste lines, it is not good for the society and the country," the minister said.Asked about Gandhi making fun of GST during his campaign tour in south Gujarat, Jaitley said, "I firmly believe he has no understanding of this subject, he has not studied it.Jaitley also targeted Rahul Gandhi over his recent remarks on the Goods and Services Tax, saying he firmly believes that the Congress vice-president has no knowledge of the subject.He said that since the 2002 elections, the BJPs main agenda in Gujarat had been development and they had not wavered from that path despite many distractions. They used the entire government machinery during the 2007 and 2012 elections, China Carpenter CNC Machine misused the CBI, used anti-national elements in the form of terrorists," he alleged.."If anything does not work then you spread the poison of casteism to stop developmental politics. This is for the first time - not only in India but in the entire world - that a political party is starting its campaign by showing development as something bad.Ahmedabad: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday accused the Congress of running a strange campaign in Gujarat by mocking development and spreading the "poison of casteism"."During the last three elections in Gujarat, the Congress tried to target a person (Narendra Modi)