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    Modi's Yatra to Power
    Modi's Yatra to Power
    Modi's Yatra to Power
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    Modi's Yatra to Power

    By Andy Marino

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    The incredible story of what makes Narendra Modi a potential prime ministerial candidate. As he overcomes resistance from within his own party, from various factions of the Sangh Parivar and from his political opponents. A fascinating account of what it takes to be mass leader.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarper XXI
    Release dateAug 5, 2015
    ISBN9789351367147
    Modi's Yatra to Power
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    Andy Marino

    Andy Marino, who has a PhD in English Literature, is a British author and TV producer who lives and works in London but travels extensively. He is the acclaimed best-selling author of A Quiet American and Hershel: The Boy Who Started World War Two.

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    Modi’s Yatra to Power

    Religious or cultural purity is a fundamental fantasy.

    – V.S. Naipaul

    Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards on 31 October 1984. Her son Rajiv took over as prime minister as the country’s worst pogrom in modern history got under way in Delhi. It was led by vengeful Congressmen still unpunished today. In Gujarat intermittent riots over reservations had already been in progress for some time; even the police themselves had started to riot, burning down the offices of a newspaper critical of their conduct and corruption. Law and order seemed to have completely broken down in the state. The army was more or less permanently patrolling the streets of Ahmedabad. For the first time Gujarat’s industries and factories were closing in response to the unending violence.¹

    Modi, meanwhile, went on quietly with his organizational work for the RSS, remaining studiously uninvolved in electoral politics. The BJP had slowly been making small gains at the state level, and in the municipal elections the previous May had won control of Rajkot and Junagadh. Subsequently it had taken all in a series of five by-elections to the Lok Sabha.²

    But after Indira Gandhi’s death sympathy for the Congress across India was overwhelming. In the December 1984 general election Rajiv Gandhi received the largest majority in independent India’s history. The Congress won 414 Lok Sabha seats; the BJP only two. It seemed at the time there was little hope for the party to break out and acquire a national presence.

    Rajiv decided that Solanki, despite consolidating the Congress vote in Gujarat, was a disastrous chief minister. The riots had again flared up, with renewed intensity. Rajiv sacked him in July 1985 in spite of the record victory in the March state election,

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