Law must take its own course: Narendra Modi on Robert Vadra

AHMEDABAD: As Priyanka Gandhi stepped up her offensive against BJP over allegations about her husband Robert Vadra, Narendra Modi said today that he did not believe in politics of vendetta but the law must take its own course.

Asked about how allegations against Vadra would be dealt with in the event of him coming to power, the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate said he did not believe in politics of vendetta and witch-hunting of which he himself had been a "victim" for the last 10 years.

At the same time, nobody was above law and if somebody had done something wrong, the law must take its own course.

"But that has to happen in an institutional manner as per the due process without interference from any quarter. Such actions should never be guided by political considerations," Modi told PTI.

Anwsering a question about recent attacks on him by Priyanka who had accused him of humiliating her family, he said, "It is natural that a daughter would like to defend her mother. A sister would like to defend her brother. I do not have any problems with that."

Asked which one was the "real Modi"--a strong willed and decisive leader or a divisive and authoritarian one, the Gujarat Chief Minister said that for those who had seen him closely and worked with him believed that he was strong willed and decisive.

However, some people for reasons best known to them had decided to judge him not on what he was and not on his work but "on the basis of perception created about me by certain vested interests and my political opponents". At times, he wondered why was there "this constant attempt to portray me in a particular manner".

Modi asserted that his opponents had not been able to find any serious allegations of corruption, nepotism or incompetence against him.

"They have found no substantive issues to target me. Thus, it seems they resort to vague, non-specific and subjective things like saying that I am authoritarian, jingostic, divisive etc," he said.