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...It is a supra-Gandhian exercise in self-control and self-abnegation. Modi eats alone, abjures salt and spices, bathes in cold water regardless of the season, and over many months has never slept in the same house twice. He will not be the first sanyasi to enter 7 Race Course Road. He will though be the first to occupy it.
His pilgrimage to New Delhi began in 1967 when, at the age of 17, Modi left his home in Vadnagar (Gujarat) to travel throughout India. He returned unannounced two years later, tasted his mother's cooking and left again, never to return.
Working his way up as a pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, he put his party before his own ambitions. His loyalty to it remained unshakeable, despite being ostracised by an ungrateful Bharatiya Janata Party high command after a particularly successful yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. He was forced to spend years in exile, like Deng Xiaoping, and like Deng, he survived and rebounded, vaulting over his detractors...
...F. S. Aijazuddin in Dawn, DC, Edit Page, 6 June 2014
...Posted by Ishani
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