Narendra Modi showed up at the meeting of the BJP’s national executive after the leadership
and the RSS caved in to his demand for the ouster of his bete noire Sanjay Joshi from the important party body, in a capitulation which solidifies the Hindutva hardliner’s standing as the strongest party leader. The RSS leadership and BJP chief Nitin Gadkari who had resisted Modi’s demand finally blinked on Wednesday after the Gujarat chief minister threatened that all members of the national executive from Gujarat would quit if Joshi was not evicted.
While a boost for his own stock, Modi’s success can diminish Gadkari’s authority at the outset of his second innings as party chief, and can cause uneasiness to allies like Nitish Kumar by fuelling the perception that the Gujarat strongman may soon be playing a bigger role on the national stage.
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