Modi’s crown comes with thorns

At its recent National Council meet, the BJP virtually declared Narendra Modi the Party’s prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. With BJP President Rajnath Singh — who got a helping hand from Modi for his post — hailing Modi for his great work in Gujarat and joyfully taking a back seat to make way for the BJP’s hero, other aspirants for the position, such as L. K. Advani or Sushma Swaraj, kept a straight face and cheered the man of the moment. Sushma appeared to do it more willingly than Advani, whose body language displayed he wasn’t too happy with the “jai jai Modi” clamour at the meet.

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