Belated strategy
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) move to throw up Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's name as a future prime minister half way through the elections has taken people even in his own party by surprise, but political analysts say it could be a belated strategy to impress on young voters that the party has a second line of leadership ready as well.
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The BJP's election managers claimed there was no "pre-conceived strategy" when party ideologue Arun Shourie said on Friday that Modi was the "next prime minister also from Gujarat after LK Advani" only to indicate there was no dearth of leadership in the party. That if the Congress had Rahul Gandhi as a prime minister-in-waiting, the BJP had Modi.
Image: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi being garlanded by party workers during an election rally in Ahmedabad
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