New Delhi: No other Prime Minister in the past has brought more honour and glory to India like Narendra Modi has in a short span of time, said Varun Gandhi while campaigning in Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh, where he is the BJP candidate.

“Honestly speaking, some people in my family have been prime ministers too but the kind of glory PM Modi has brought to India, nobody else has done for the country for a long time. That man is living for the country and he will die for the country. Modi only thinks about the country,” Varun Gandhi said, addressing a public rally at Pilibhit, UP.

Campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party, Gandhi invoked Atal Bihari Vajpayee and compared the former Prime Minister with the incumbent, but in terms of the social strata he belonged to.

” Vajpayee ji was from a normal family but had never seen abject poverty. Modi ji is from an economically weaker family and in the past five years, Prime Minister Modi has not faced even a single accusation of corruption. There are no corruption charges on him. For whom would he do corruption when he has no one else in his family,” the 39-year-old said, extolling the Prime Minister.

Varun Gandhi, the cousin of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, is the youngest of the fifth generation of the Nehru-Gandhi family. His father Sanjay Gandhi, who died in a tragic plane crash was the brother of Rajiv Gandhi and the son of late PM Indira Gandhi. In 1980, soon after the plane crash, Maneka Gandhi joined the BJP.

Varun Gandhi is Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s cousin and the youngest of the fifth generation of the Nehru-Gandhi family. His father Sanjay Gandhi, who died in a tragic plane crash was the brother of Rajiv Gandhi and the younger son of feisty former PM Indira Gandhi. In 1980, soon after the plane crash,Varun’s mother Maneka Gandhi joined the BJP.