Modi ahoy! Gujarat CM sets sail for Goa with twin victories

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JUNE  6- June 5 was a good Wednesday for Narendra Modi. Not only did Lalchand Kishenchand Advani, the BJP’s automatic frontrunner for Prime Minister for the last 15 years, let the NaMo bandwagon and its proponents ride ahead but he also backed the Gujarat Chief Minister as the BJP’s poll campaign chief. The icing on the cake was the party’s bypoll victory in 2 Lok Sabha and 4 Assembly seats from the state.

The prime ministerial candidate-in-waiting even got to rub salt on the Congress-led UPA government over the modifed National Counter Terrorism Centre draft order at the Chief Ministers’ Conference on Internal Security in New Delhi.

Modi, BJP workers expect, might finally be named the party’s nominee for the top post at its national executive meet in Goa this weekend. But what will be the reaction of the party’s allies such as the JD-U is something the BJP has to ponder over.

Yet it is a fact BJP’s fate is tied to that of Modi. As a party general secretary put it: “There is a feeling in the party that a decision on the prime ministerial candidate should be taken now. A decision should be taken, whether a leader has to be projected, and who it would be”.So who will that name be: Madhya Pradesh’s Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan or Modi? The choice won’t be difficult for the workers and leaders of the saffron party because they know Modi has a polarising effect while Chouhan a “humbling” effect.

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But with the allies jittery at all this “NaMo” talk, even the BJP knows it needs the numbers that can come with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to come close to power again.

So the question remains: The BJP may vote for Modi but will the NDA correct its earlier anti-NaMo stance too?