Shah’s elevation: That’s Modi Model
BY R.K.MISRA In the womb of conflict lie seeds of change. You need conflict to grow but you must learn to harvest from it. Or so says Subroto Baghchi, the chairman of the hugely successful, global IT solutions company, Mindtree in one of his very popular books. Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi seems to have picked a page out of it to parent a politics of confrontation and conflict that saw him chisel out an unprecedented national mandate for the BJP and the prime ministership of India for himself. If the 2002 ethnic conflict that followed the Godhra train carnage brought Modi to national focus, it was his aggressive ,confrontational politics that paid him rich dividends. Dispensing with niceties of the previous generation, Modi lunged into his opponents, both within the party and without, to decimate as well as create-decimate his rivals and create a national constituency . Modi’s politics brooks no grey. There is only black and white. You are either for him or dee