Anita Saluja
Express News Service
Last Updated : 18 Sep 2011 09:04:16 AM IST
NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi has fasted his way into the crowded centrestage of prime ministerial ambition, scattering challengers and aspirants like leaves in a new storm. Rising phoenix-like from the ashes of 2010, Modi’s fast has recast his image as that of a mature, national leader ready to put the nightmare of the past behind, to offer a national future as shining as Gujarat’s present. By starting his fast with his mother’s blessings, Modi sent the signal that he sought Mother India’s grace for his national journey. In his opening speech, he made it clear that he will take the spirit of communal harmony to “each and every village, each and every house”.
Yet, there were shades of unapologetic authority; “to normalise the tense situation, we used all our might.” It was the face of a leader who had reinvented himself as a new Sardar Patel. And L K Advani, the BJP’s former Patel, endorsed Modi, saying, “No other state has done so much against corruption like Gujarat.” He had already made it clear in Ahmedabad in April that there is no fight in the party over “Modiji being projected as the future prime ministerial candidate”. Befittingly, Modi’s letter on Friday showed that the belligerent voice of hardcore Hindutva had been replaced with a contrite expression of gratitude to “those who had pointed out my genuine mistakes in the last 10 years”.
It seemed that the mistakes made were by foes, both in the BJP and Congress. BJP’s prime ministerial aspirants were forced into solidarity. Arun Jaitley praised Modi saying, “There is politics of honesty in Gujarat. On the other hand, there is an atmosphere of corruption at the centre.”
Courtesy : The New Indian Express
Yet, there were shades of unapologetic authority; “to normalise the tense situation, we used all our might.” It was the face of a leader who had reinvented himself as a new Sardar Patel. And L K Advani, the BJP’s former Patel, endorsed Modi, saying, “No other state has done so much against corruption like Gujarat.” He had already made it clear in Ahmedabad in April that there is no fight in the party over “Modiji being projected as the future prime ministerial candidate”. Befittingly, Modi’s letter on Friday showed that the belligerent voice of hardcore Hindutva had been replaced with a contrite expression of gratitude to “those who had pointed out my genuine mistakes in the last 10 years”.
It seemed that the mistakes made were by foes, both in the BJP and Congress. BJP’s prime ministerial aspirants were forced into solidarity. Arun Jaitley praised Modi saying, “There is politics of honesty in Gujarat. On the other hand, there is an atmosphere of corruption at the centre.”
Courtesy : The New Indian Express
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