'Kejriwal will force Modi to change his electoral campaign'

January 15, 2014 11:49

"Modi cannot content himself anymore with merely indulging in Congress bashing and referring to the Gujarat "miracle". He will have to show that his party is as clean and as innovative as the AAP. And this is impossible because the AAP is new and the BJP is now old," says Christophe Jaffrelot, author of several acclaimed books on Indian politics. Read

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