Sanghs Nitin fixation

November 27, 2012 13:47

Despite the growing clamour for Nitin Gadkari's head, Mohanrao Bhagwat, the RSS sarsanghachalak, is still inclined to give Gadkari a second innings as BJP president, reports the Telegraph, India. There is a growing clamour in the BJP that even if Gadkari's tenure is extended by three years, Narendra Modi should be frontlined as the "people's choice', an honorific that would bolster his claim for projection as prime-ministerial choice in 2014. Read more here.

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