Why Does Modi Want Ahmed Patel Defeated
BY R.K.MISRA Why is the BJP investing so much in defeating Ahmed Patel, political advisor to Congress president Mrs Sonia Gandhi in the Rajya Sabha elections in Gujarat? The BJP-both the party and it’s government-working in tandem have invested innumerable brain and brawn manhours trying to sculpt the defeat of Patel. In this pursuit, it has been brazenly unmindful of the dent to it’s image in the use of central agencies in the raid on a Bangaluru resort where the Gujarat Congress legislators were put up and on a business group in Vadodara considered close to Patel. The heave-ho is only because, this single move, if it succeeds, will prove a psychological blow to a Congress already laid low by it’ s defeat in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Goa but heading for Gujarat elections with an advantage. Mrs Gandhi still remains a bugbear for the BJP, for it was she who had virtually single handedly, burst the ‘India Shining” bubble of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government to