Not many chief ministers of a large state have stayed in office for 10 years on the trot. Fewer still have stayed relentlessly in the news the way Narendra Modi has since he took over as Gujarat CM a decade ago. A day before Modi’s 10th year in power, his government offered payouts to state employees which will cost the exchequer Rs 2,250 crore. The government on Friday announced cash for this year’s arrears of the sixth pay commission to nearly 4.53 lakh government employees and 3.47 lakh pensioners. A Diwali bonanza, the move is also seen as a sign of early assembly polls, scheduled in December 2012. Over the years, Modi has turned every crisis into an opportunity, consolidated his position within and outside the party, damaged the Congress, turned around ailing public sector units, developed infrastructure and shaped policies that sped up growth. But, while he did all this, the ghost of the 2002 riots could never get erased.
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Your last statement is not true. Lakhs of Gujarati's voted for Modi. Everyman on the street admires and wishes their chief minister would be like him. I agree a certain small but loud section of the media loves to hold this 'hate' position and continues to do so. How long can they do this? In time, they too will have to admit their words dont ring real anymore.
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