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Modi sits comfortable in Gujarat (The Marathi article was published in Pudhari on 6th March 2014)

By Deepak Parvatiyar The Narendra Modi juggernaut seems unstoppable in the Gujarat strongman’s home state. Yet it is to be seen whether the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate secures all the 26 lok sabha seats from the state for his party or not. In the last Lok Sabha elections in 2009 though, the BJP could win 15 lok sabha seats against the Congress’s 11 seats which was an improvement of one seat from the 2004 elections. With the Congress in total disarray in the state this time, political observers feel the Aam Admi Party could prevent a Modi clean sweep in the state following grapevines that the political greenhorns may rope in some popular faces such as Amrita Patel –the chairperson of National Dairy Development Board, Anand, SR Rao – the legendary former municipal commissioner of Surat who transformed the city as one of the cleanest cities in the country after the outbreak of the plague there in the 1990s. Sources in the AAP say there are many such names which are doing rou