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Now Nitin Gadkari also bats Narendra Modi as Prime Minister candidate

Thumbnail image for Now Nitin Gadkari also bats Narendra Modi as Prime Minister candidate 25 January 2012

Ruling out himself as his party’s prime ministerial candidate, BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Sunday favoured Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for the top job and promised to back his candidature as party chief. “I will never be a candidate for PM nor will I topple anybody. Modi has good potential to be BJP president [...]

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The rise and rise of tomorrow’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi

7 November 2011

No politician in independent India has been demonised in such a relentless, Goebbelsian manner as Narendra Modi, and no politician has withstood it with as much resilience and courage as him, notwithstanding the entire Central government, influential sections of the media machinery and civil society arraigned against him. His dark patch started with the unfortunate [...]

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Narendra Modi PM in making: Navjot Singh Sidhu

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Comparing Narendra Modi with the likes of Subhash Chandra Bose and Shymaprasad Mukherjee, BJP MP from Amritsar Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday said the Gujarat chief minister is the ‘prime minister in making‘. “We need people like Modi who, like Subhash Chandra Bose and Shyamaprasad Mukherjee, has dedicated his life to the nation,” he told [...]

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MNS would support Modi as PM: Raj Thackeray

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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Monday said that Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi could become a good Prime Minister, and MNS would be happy to support him. “I have come to convey my good wishes to Modiji. I had called him after the Supreme Court’s order (in Gulberg Society riot case). After the [...]

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Sadbhavana Mission Will End Votebank Politics: Narendra Modi

Thumbnail image for Sadbhavana Mission Will End Votebank Politics: Narendra Modi 19 September 2011

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today began his three-day fast for “peace and communal harmony”, saying the success of his endeavour would mean an end to vote-bank politics. He also said that the fast was not against anybody. “We want to take this spirit to each and every village … Each and every house. This [...]

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Modi is ‘Unavoidable’, blogs Amar Singh

11 February 2010

Political activities after his expulsion from the Samajwadi Party, blogger Amar Singh Tuesday chose Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to comment on, describing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader as unavoidable. Modi was the one personality in Indian politics who cannot be ignored, Amar Singh wrote in the latest entry of his blog. Amar Singh [...]

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Modi PM chorus grows stronger in BJP as Jaitley, Naidu chip in

26 April 2009

More support on Saturday poured in from within the BJP for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the party’s prime ministerial candidate with senior leaders Arun Jaitley and M Venkaiah Naidu saying they would be happy to see him in the top post. However, both Mr. Jaitley and Mr. Naidu made it clear that Advani [...]

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Now, Jaitley endorses Modi as PM candidate

26 April 2009

Narendra Modi got yet another endorsement from a key BJP leader as party’s future prime ministerial candidate, with Arun Jaitley today saying that he would be happy to see the Gujarat chief minister occupy the top post after L K Advani. “Modi has ruled Gujarat state which has now become role model for other states [...]

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Arun Shourie touts Narendra Modi as Advani’s successor

25 April 2009

In what may be the first clear advocacy of Narendra Modi for PM by a senior BJP leader, former minister Arun Shourie said the Gujarat chief minister’s leadership of his state was exemplary as he had already implemented programmes being promised by political parties in their manifestos. Speaking in Ahmedabad, Shourie suggested that it could [...]

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PM silent on black money and secret accounts: Modi

13 April 2009

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday claimed that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had maintained silence on the issue of black money and secret accounts deliberated during the G-20 summit. “The developed countries for the first time passed a resolution at the G-20 summit saying that they will impose economic restrictions and build up pressure [...]

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INDIA ELECTION EYE-Gujarat’s Modi to strengthen BJP-poll

1 April 2009

The following is a snapshot of recent developments in India’s general election campaign. (Items are from own sources unless stated.) * Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat state, will strengthen the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) influence in the region and is also a favourite among 79 percent of the people for development work, according to [...]

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Modi not my heir apparent, declares Advani

14 March 2009

Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani has said that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was not his “heir apparent” although he may be party’s most popular leader right now. Asked by the Outlook magazine in an interview whether Modi was “standing above the other leaders of the second generation in the BJP” [...]

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Modi PM material for Anil Ambani, Sunil Mittal

15 January 2009

From being vilified as the most-hated politician in the country post-Godhra, to being eulogised as a prime minister-in-the-making, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has indeed come a long way. As the fourth edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit drew to a close at Ahmedabad on Tuesday, corporate India, shedding its usual reticence, hailed [...]

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