``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 addressing 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 the BJP 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. ``The BJP says price rise and all other problems have been caused by us. But the instability of the government is due to the 18-party coalition. Can this be blamed on the Congress as well?'' she asked.

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.

DPCC chief Sheila Dikshit, who also addressed the rally, confidently declared: ``There is a Congress wave for Sonia and the party will sweep the polls''.