Conspiracy to promote Nehru-Gandhi family is dangerous: Modi

Nagpur, Feb 8 (PTI) Chief Minister of India's western
state of Gujarat, Narendra Modi Sunday made a scathing attack
on the Gandhi-Nehru family alleging that a "conspiracy" has
been hatched to promote the family posing a danger to the
future of the country.

"Conspiracy to promote one family's past is posing
danger for the future of the country," Modi said without
directly naming the Gandhi-Nehru family but the indication was
obvious.

Noting that members of the family have ruled the
country for as many as 37 years, he said that if the past five
years were also taken into account, then it would be a 42-year
rule.

With Manmohan Singh being an "invisible" Prime
Minister, it was "power without accountability" for the family
in the last five years, he alleged.

Addressing the party's National Council meeting here
in western state of Maharashtra, the BJP's star campaigner
gave a new spin to the victory of Barack Obama in the US
Presidential elections claiming that it was the result of the
American citizens being fed up with the stranglehold of a few
families in politics.

"It was senior Bush for two terms followed by two
terms of Bill Clinton and then two terms of junior Bush and
then there was the possibility of another Clinton. The people
there felt if it will be only two families that will run the
country", Modi contended.

Modi, who was participating in the discussion on the
political resolution, said, in India "only one family has
ruined everything".

Making a strong pitch for L K Advani as the next Prime
Minister, he said that what the country was needing was a
"strong" leader like the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate and
"not like Manmohan Singh whose presence is not felt" despite
he occupying the top post. PTI