Why China is betting on Narendra Modi

August 29, 2011 18:22

Ask any BJP leader about whom the party might project as its prime ministerial candidate in 2014, and you'll likely be subjected to incoherent waffling that indicates great uncertainty.

If Narendra Modi's name comes up as a potential candidate at all, it is only in hushed and defensive tones, since even the BJP reasons that it is still paying the political price of the 2002 riots.

Yet, in faraway China where electoral politics as practised raucously in India, is an alien beast, Communist Party leaders and policymakers may have read their own tea leaves and come to two conclusions on the Indian polity.

Read Venky Vembu in Firstpost.com

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