(English translation of the article published in Marathi daily Pudhari on 26th March 2014) http://epaper.pudhari.com/details.aspx?ID=%20450325%20&boxid=194759515&pgno=1&u_name=0 Elections 2014 North Gujarat, Saurashtra and Kutch By Deepak Parvatiyar Narendra Modi’s home town Vadnagar falls in the Mehsana parliamentary constituency of North Gujarat. His exploits while growing up in this sleepy town, such as swimming in “crocodile infested” local lake and selling tea at the railway station, has become a part of the folklore here. After all, Modi is perceived to be the next prime minister of the country! While the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate himself chose to contest from Vadodara in South-Central Gujarat (and Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh), his very name is enough to prop up the BJP here like elsewhere in the Mehsana parliamentary constituency– which the BJP had annexed from the Congress in the 2009 general elections. Campaigning is a low key affair thoug
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