In picture:A big banner of Narendra Modi

Ahmedabad, 17 July 2013

While interviewing him, Reuters asked Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi:

People want to know who is the real Modi – Hindu nationalist leader or pro-business chief minister?

Shri Modi replied:I’m nationalist. I’m patriotic. Nothing is wrong. I’m a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I’m a Hindu nationalist so yes, you can say I’m a Hindu nationalist because I’m a born Hindu. I’m patriotic so nothing is wrong in it. As far as progressive, development-oriented, workaholic, whatever they say, this is what they are saying. So there’s no contradiction between the two. It’s one and the same image.

Modi’s this line has been picked up by local unit of BJP in Mumbai, and it has been put at Bandra bus station in Mumbai in a long banner.

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