India: In 1988, Modi was elected as organizing secretary of BJP’s Gujarat unit, marking his formal entry into mainstream politics. As secretary, his electoral strategy was central to BJP’s victory in the 1995 state elections.
Since then, he never looked back and ensured his party win three consecutive terms, in spite of those unsavoury post Godhra incidents which painted him as villain to minorities.
He was formally nominated as Prime Ministerial candidate by the party’s think-tank though few of the party seniors like L K Advani expressed his displeasure and some of till then allies like Nitish Kumar of JD (U).
However, many, including the legal luminaries like Kapil Sibal, quite often ridiculed him as ‘chai wala’ now going to be the 13th Prime Minister of independent India. Shouldn’t the biggest democracies like India feel proud of making their own ‘son of the soil’ like Narendra Modi, as the Prime Minister? Instead of ‘acceptable’ foreign ‘bahu’!
Some Interesting Facts about Narendra Modi :
1. Narendra Modi, the man who used to sell tea at Vadnagar Railway station in Gujarat, has become the 15th Prime Minister of India.
2. Before taking over as Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2001, Modi was a purely organizational man who had never contested any elections.
3. But once he was anointed as the Chief Minister of Gujarat, there was no looking back for Modi and he won three state elections in a row.
4. No other Chief Minister in India evokes as much hatred as Narendra Modi but at the same time no other Chief Minister commands as much respect as Narendra Modi.
5. The hatred for Modi is community specific but he is admired across communities and his popularity transcends all barriers of caste, community and religion.
6. Modi sold tea for many years. That was the time when Modi learnt what hardship really meant. It made him more determined and resolute in his approach towards life.
7. As for his clothes, his favourite cloth store used to be Jade Blue of Ahmedabad. He ensures that he looks elegant whenever he moves out.
8. Modi is man behind putting Gujarat on the World map.
9. Modi loves writing poetry during his leisure time and has also published some of books written by him.
10. Narendra Modi is the 2nd most followed Indian leader on Twitter just after Shashi Tharoor.
11. He has ordered to demolish many Hindu temples which don’t have proper government sanction and he is also admired by many Muslims of his state.
12. He is largely influenced by the leadership style of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and is a fan and follower of Swami Vivekananda and his principles.
13. He has a strong hold on each language that he speaks. He can speak in Gujarati that is his mother tongue, Hindi fluently although is not much fluent in English.
14. As a teenager he ran away to the Himalayas and stayed there for 2 years with the yogic sadhus and studied Hindutva.
15. He takes the blessing of his mother before starting any new venture.
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