A litmus test for Narendra Modi
For all its efforts to downplay the importance of the Gujarat assembly elections beginning this Thursday, the Congress knows that a two-thirds sweep of the state will catapult Narendra Modi on to the national stage. In an election as defining as this, numbers matter. Modi won 114 and 117 seats respectively in 2002 and 2007. A crushing victory - over 125 seats in Gujarat's 182-seat assembly - will smoothen the craters that dot his path to Delhi. The 2014 Lok Sabha elections will be a watershed in %several ways.
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