The BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate said that as a child who sold tea, he had not got toffees but had his sights set on trophies.
Modi also used the book authored by former adviser to PM Sanjaya Baru to take a jibe at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
He said he had been attacking Singh but now realises that the Prime Minister did not have the real power which lay with ”one family”, a reference to Gandhi family.
”I may have used some strong words against Singh over the last 10 years. But after reading the book, I feel I should not have attacked him because he was not at fault. The entire fault lies with mother and son (Sonia and Rahul),” Modi said.
“It would have been better, if I had not said those words because now it is clear, he had no fault. The entire responsibility rests on one family. It is all the work of mother-son or sometimes of the daughter and son-in -law”, Modi claimed adding that they had ruined the country.