Modi attacks 'family rule' in Haryana, seeks change

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday launched a scathing attack on Haryana's dynastic politics and corruption and urged people to vote the BJP to power in the assembly polls.

Addressing an election rally for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here, Modi said Haryana had not seen a government in which political families looked beyond themselves and their family members.

"We want to make Haryana free from this 'parivaar-vaad' (dynastic politics). In the last 25 years, have you seen a government in Haryana which worked for the welfare of the people?

"In Haryana, the government works only for the chief minister and his family. All political leaders have been running their shops in Haryana for themselves and their families," Modi said.

He urged voters to bring the BJP to power with full majority so that the state could be rid of dynastic politics, nepotism and corruption.

Modi said corruption and land scams had become rampant in Haryana.

"All ministers in Haryana are playing the game of 'kaun banega arabpati' (Who wants to be a billionaire) on the lines of Amitabh Bachchan's popular TV show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati'. There is largescale corruption. In all governments in the past, contractors have had a free run," Modi said.

He said the BJP was the only party where a tea vendor like him could become the prime minister.

Claiming there was a wave for the BJP in Haryana, Modi said: "I have not come here for a political rally. I have come here to congratulate you in advance for supporting the BJP."

Ridiculing the Congress, Modi said: "The Congress should be ashamed. It has not given an account of its 60 years of sins while in the government. But they are questioning my government after just 60 days."

He also warned voters in Haryana from being misled by leaders of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD).