I think this is another biased article, which mixes fact and fiction to create a heady concoction. One tends to frown upon quotes from unknown "ardent Narendra Modi follower" who is fictitious characters solely created so that the writer can put words in his mouth. Modi as a hardliner must reinforce that image with a rhetoric that highlights this. But to suggest that he implied that if he was the PM (not MMS or LK Advani) he would have done a better job to say the least is ludicrous. Had the writer reined in his bias against Modi or maybe the BJP and used his brains more effectively he would have realized that the minor churnings that are seen within the BJP is the conflict between the Hardliners and the moderates. Modi is the trump card of the Hardliners since he is a hardliner and could win on that hard-line platform. Advani is the moderate (as with all such classifications it is relative and in this instance relative to Modi). Somewhere between the Gujarat victory and the next General Elections the BJP will need to take a call whether it should project itself as hard-line or as a moderate party! With the UPA shifting to placate the minorities the BJP may have no choice but to opt for hard-line Hinduvata and hope that they retain it allies. The attempt to simplify the whole issue on the Prime Ministerial aspirations of Modi doesn%u2019t even warrant notice.
