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| At Narendra Modi's swearing-in cere |
| At Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony today, Jayalalithaa, Raj Thackeray among A-listers
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| INDIA
, 26-December-2012
1:32:49 AM |
| Narendra Modi will take oath a fourth time as Gujarat Chief Minister at 11 am today and several A-listers, including J Jayalalithaa and Raj Thackeray, will be in attendance. Mr Modi began his morning by tweeting a Vivekananda quote, as he is wont to do. "To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization...co-ordination of wills," he said on Twitter.
Mr Modi's big victory last week is seen by his many supporters as a stepping stone towards a bigger political role at the national level, even perhaps the BJP's candidate for Prime Minister in 2014. His stature within his party was only reinforced by the win he has delivered in the Gujarat Assembly elections and the scale of the ceremony planned today shows that. The Sardar Patel stadium in Ahmedabad has been readied to accommodate about 100,000 people. There is heavy security at the venue.
Leading the star brigade will be Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who flew out of Chennai early this morning. Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray landed in Ahmedabad on Wednesday with his wife and son. The who's who of the BJP will be there, including party chief Nitin Gadkari, who has not shared the warmest relationship with the Gujarat CM for many months now. And there will be some NDA allies like Parkash Singh Badal of the Akali Dal.
Bihar Chief Minster Nitish Kumar's absence is no surprise, but his party, the Janata Dal (United) which is a major ally of the BJP, will send no representative at all. The CM is also yet to receive an RSVP from top leaders of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS, the ideological mentor of the BJP and the organisation in which Mr Modi cut his political teeth. Sangh leaders in Gujarat have been on collision course with the Chief Minister lately, though Mr Modi made attempts to reach out when he met senior RSS leaders after his victory in the Gujarat elections last week.
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