For some time now, both the print and the electronic
media have whipped up a sustained rhetoric about
the ‘phenomenal and all round development’ that is
claimed to have taken place in the state of Gujarat
under the ‘charismatic’ leadership of Mr. Narendra
Modi, the BJP Chief Minister of the state. This
orchestrated campaign has been intensified
particularly after Mr. Modi was anointed as the prime
ministerial candidate of the BJP for the ensuing Lok
Sabha polls. Not only the media, even the leading
industrial houses and corporate barons have thrown
in their weight behind Mr. Narendra Modi to lead the
country towards ‘development’ in line with the
Gujarat model from the seat of power at Delhi.