With the Gujarat election results now confirming a victory of Modi (underscore that), one cannot but admire the man who won thrice using different strategies, his histrionics and rhetorics notwithstanding.
I was in Ahmedabad (in Oct) for a day and I had a chance to interact with the locals (the cabbie, room attendant etc). I asked them about Gujarat elections and it emerged that the overwhelming factor there was and is Narendra Modi. His development schemes come later and religious factors the last (atleast they said so).
Will he be a National leader, as many say so? Personally, being a shrewd politician CEO that he is, I think he knows the dangers of coalition politics at the centre – well at least for now. Some detractors see him as the Nurse Ratched of “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” …(the dissenters must be kicking themselves now). Wait and watch…