``The Congress has lost three leaders for this country -- Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. I would like to know who among the BJP has laid down their life for this country?'' she said, addressing a 10,000-strong crowd in the Shahadra area of east Delhi today. ``My aim is not to grab power. I only want to serve the people, which is what I learnt from Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi,'' she said in her emotional speech to an audience which predominantly consisted of women.

Calling the BJP campaign an ``insult to the voter's wisdom'', she said, ``If it is their own government and even then they are so helpless about solving problems like price rise, then what is the point of being in power?''

Expressing her party's nonchalance in coming to power at the Centre, she said: ``If the Congress wanted, it could have toppled theBJP government any time in the last few months.''

``But what I believe is that this government will go due to its own contradictions,'' she said, talking to potential voters 48 hours before the elections.

``The BJP says price rise and all other problems have been caused by the Congress. But the instability of the government is due to the 18-party coalition. Can this be blamed on the Congress as well?'' she asked, and added to peals to laughter from the crowd, ``As the saying goes, naach na jaane aangan tedha (If you can't dance, don't blame it on the floor).''

Playing to the middle-class, which is the dominant profile of the constituency, she zeroed in on civic problems of the area. ``Garbage all around your homes, no health services, no amenities in slums and no electricity: It is time to have change of governance,'' she urged.

Addressing the large chunk of resettlement colonies in East Delhi, ``If you start building a house, some one will come to snatch from you what belongs to you,'' shesaid and added, ``even for getting the smallest thing done, you need to ask for the help of an influential person.''

Talking to an electorate ever-hopeful of civic solutions, she blamed the Delhi government for not implementing the Bawana power plant project, not taking concrete action after the outbreak of dropsy and failing to check the steep rise in the crime graph of the city.

DPCC chief Sheila Dikshit, declared: ``There is a Congress wave for Sonia and the party will sweep the polls.'' She too emphasised the sacrifices made by the Gandhi family.