“Our first PM (Jawaharlal Nehru) governed this nation for 17 years. His daughter (Indira Gandhi) did that for 14 years. Then her son (Rajiv Gandhi) held the post of PM for 5 years. In last 10 years from 2004-14 you saw how the family governed the nation through remote control," Modi said in an apparent reference to former Congress president Sonia Gandhi who was at the party helm when Manmohan Singh was the prime minister for two consecutive terms (2004-2014).