Modi’s coming tests

Through Sadbhavana Mission, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi may have aimed at projecting himself as an acceptable face of the BJP among both the majority as well as minority communities. Though, by and large, hardliners in both camps were far from impressed, it should be kept in mind that it was not they whom Modi targeted; it was the liberals on both sides of the divide whom he was hoping to win over, thereby closing the divide. At the end of the day, however, he must have realised that ‘liberals’ can sometimes outmatch hardliners in the fundamentalism department.

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