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Modi issue overshadows BJP meet
Patna: The controversy surrounding Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over two advertisements virtually hijacked the two-day party National Executive that ended yesterday. The resolutions and the debates at the conclave took a backseat with the row involving Modi and his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar taking the centre stage following the ad blitzkrieg praising the Gujarat Chief Minister. In one advertisement Modi was shown holding a hand of Kumar and another listing the details of Gujarat government's aid to Bihar during the Kosi floods in 2008. This riled Kumar no end that he cancelled a dinner he was to hold for the top BJP leadership on Saturday night. Kumar, who
is heading a coalition government with BJP, is wooing Muslims in the elections scheduled later this year and does not not want to be seen in the company of Modi. Perhaps, no other crucial meeting of the BJP had revolved around one man, relegating the issues challenging the organisation. There was a sense of unease in a section of party leaders even before the meeting as Modi left no stone unturned to project his larger-than-life persona with some advertisements depicting him as a 'Hindu Hriday Samrat' and some others claiming that Muslims were well-off in Gujarat.
The maiden visit of Modi in Bihar after becoming was preceded by a propaganda which provided fodder for the detractors of Nitish Kumar to target him ahead of Assembly elections in Bihar. This came as an apparent embarrassment to Kumar, who has been assiduously wooing the Muslims, constituting 16 per cent of the state's population.
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Patna: The controversy surrounding Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over two advertisements virtually hijacked the two-day party National Executive that ended yesterday. The resolutions and the debates at the conclave took a backseat with the row involving Modi and his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar taking the centre stage following the ad blitzkrieg praising the Gujarat Chief Minister. In one advertisement Modi was shown holding a hand of Kumar and another listing the details of Gujarat government's aid to Bihar during the Kosi floods in 2008. This riled Kumar no end that he cancelled a dinner he was to hold for the top BJP leadership on Saturday night. Kumar, who
is heading a coalition government with BJP, is wooing Muslims in the elections scheduled later this year and does not not want to be seen in the company of Modi. Perhaps, no other crucial meeting of the BJP had revolved around one man, relegating the issues challenging the organisation. There was a sense of unease in a section of party leaders even before the meeting as Modi left no stone unturned to project his larger-than-life persona with some advertisements depicting him as a 'Hindu Hriday Samrat' and some others claiming that Muslims were well-off in Gujarat.
The maiden visit of Modi in Bihar after becoming was preceded by a propaganda which provided fodder for the detractors of Nitish Kumar to target him ahead of Assembly elections in Bihar. This came as an apparent embarrassment to Kumar, who has been assiduously wooing the Muslims, constituting 16 per cent of the state's population.
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