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Narendra Modi set to become BJP President?
WSN Network

NEW DELHI: In a shocking development, India's right-wing ultra-nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is fast moving towards appointing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as its President, notwithstanding the fact that he is widely considered to be someone who presided over a massacre of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002. A powerful lobby in the RSS is rooting for Modi and seems well on the way

Narendra Modi, repeatedly denied visa by the United States because of his role in 2002 massacre of Muslims that went on for weeks and that was widely seen as blessed by the local Hindutva elements, has been consistently criticised by human rights groups across the world.

The RSS-BJP decision, so far not announced officially but now finding mention in media reports in India, clearly indicates that the Hindutva lobby is least likely to shun the hate agenda. The right wingers' recent support to various people caught in the Hindutva terror network is also indicative of the same mind set.

Sources point out that even within the BJP, there has been a lot of discomfort with the rise of Narendra Modi and part of the reasons behind fissures between BJP and RSS have been the efforts to push Narendra Modi to the front.

In Punjab, questions about the Akali Dal's alliance with the BJP are likely to get more unnerving for the Prakash Singh Badal-Sukhbir Singh Badal group if Narendra Modi indeed takes over the reins of the BJP.

11 November  2009
 

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