An opinion piece that is sure to get BJP's goat.
Narendra Modi is Gujarat's longest serving and most successful chief minister. He is renowned for having turned the Indian state around with visionary economic policies.
Alternatively, he is also referred to as the 'butcher of Gujarat'. Under his watch, following the alleged fire bombing of the train carrying Hindu pilgrims, in 2002, at Godhra, he implicitly oversaw the alleged massacre of over 2,000 Muslims, while the state machinery looked on in deliberate inaction.