Asked about how allegations against Vadra would be dealt with it in the event of his 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.
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.
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.
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