Narendra Modi addressed the Vijay Shankhnaad Rally in Varanasi. Here are some highlights:

- People of India are eager to uproot the government in Delhi.

- The 2014 election will be fought by people, not by parties and the leadership won't be of one person.

- It is impossible to talk about India without talking about the Ganga.

- For others Ganga can be a river, but for us it is our mother, not just a river.

- Ganga is not mere a flow of water, but it depicts our culture.

- The UPA govt made a scheme to clean the Ganga.

- A lot of campaigning was done and people thought something will be done.

- But in the last five years no step was taken by the Centre except holding three meetings.

- People of India want answers have you (UPA) done to clean the Ganga.

- Should those fooling the nation in the name of Ganga form the government again?

- Those who could not manage the Ganga, how can they manage the nation?

- To purify the Ganga we have to make Delhi and Lucknow pure first.

- Those protecting the Congress day and night keep asking me: 'what will you do'. - I don't just speak, it make it happen.

- I invite those who ask me all these questions: 'come to Gujarat, see the Sabarmati River today'.

- If the Sabarmati can change Gujarat's life, can't the Ganga change India's life?

- We are not here with mere promises, but with strong will.

- It is said without Uttar Pradesh no government can be formed.

- This thought is an insult to Uttar Pradesh. Is the state just about increasing numbers in Parliament?

- Is Uttar Pradesh only about making governments? I don't have such a narrow thinking.

- If India wants stability, it is not possible without Uttar Pradesh.

- India's development cannot happen without the development of Uttar Pradesh.

- Do not link Uttar Pradesh merely to the number of MPs.

- This land can become Bharat Bhagya Vidhata. It can be the engine of development.

- For us Uttar Pradesh is not a political playground, but the most important land for India's development.

- It is people for this land that once dreamt of Ram Rajya.

- If people are not skilled, how would Ram Rajya be possible?

- Farmers of this land can fill stomachs of so many people, but see the government you have.

- A farmer who has the ability to fill stomachs of others is unable to fill his own stomach.

- How does the farmer feel to know that grains are rotting? It is not just economic loss, it touches the heart of the farmer.

- Supreme Court says give grains to the poor, but government lets it rot and doesn't give it to the poor.

- The rotten grains are given to liquor manufacturers. Won't this make a farmer sad?

- What the government is doing is insult to the farmers and a joke on the poor.

- When elections come, they keep talking about the poor.

- If there is someone responsible for poverty, it is one family that has kept the nation in poverty.

- I have spent my childhood in poverty. I don't need to go to houses of poor to see what poverty is. They (the Gandhis) have hatred for the poor.

- One UPA leader calls me tea-seller. Is it a crime to stand on one's own feet and make ends meet?

- If people bless someone then anybody can become the prime minister, irrespective of what he or she does.

- Selling tea is acceptable to us, but not the country.

- I tell the poor, uproot all those people who have exploited you.

- Congress leaders say we are thieves. Yes, we are thieves, we have stolen the sleep of the Congress.

- A few days ago a Muslim from here wrote to me. He said 'I have to share a problem with you'.

- When one has to apply for a job the first thing that comes to mind is 'sifarish', but in Gujarat we have done it through technology and transparency.

- Why is it that even the most educated person does not survive on certificates, but on sifarish? Youth need dignity.

- My young friends, I am coming with a guarantee of your future. If we cannot guarantee the future of our youth then nothing can be done.

- People are uprooting the Congress in states and electing BJP governments.