The icon of gujarat

 

 

With reference to the editorial ‘Modi revives…’ (TSI December 31, 2007), I feel it speaks volumes about Modi’s innate self-confidence (his detractors call it megalomania) and how he was unmoved by the intensity of the assaults and the carefully aimed snubs directed at him. He deliberately chose to make himself the centre of the election campaign. A more cautious politician would have taken shelter behind the party or retreated into a shell. But he put himself directly in the line of fire. If the voting figures are anything to go by, a large percentage of them turned up on polling and voted for him. As many of them told, they were not voting for the BJP- they were reposing their faith in Modi, the new icon of Gujarat.

J. Seshagiri

Mysore