Modi sidesteps queries on PM ambitions

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday sidestepped questions on his Prime Ministerial ambitions, saying that he was an "apolitical person".

"I am not a politician," he said, when asked by a questioner at a programme about the desire of politicians to aim for the top political post and his attitude towards the top post. "A politician may have (the desire to become Prime Minister) but I am not a politician. I am an apolitical person," he said to a round of applause from the gathering of businessmen. Modi is widely perceived to be BJP's Prime Ministerial face in the next Lok Sabha elections.