Narendra Modi, the more political hero or the villain of India

Ahmedabad (India), February 28, 2008. - With more than 1,000 dead just six years ago, the religious clashes in 2002 in western India's Gujarat communal carnage caused the worst in recent decades and had as one of its main protagonists to then and now head of regional government, Narendra Modi.
Modi, reelected in December 2007 with an undisputed majority, has been accused of in the best case, a blind eye to the killing of Muslims, in which members of his government related items.
Carry the stigma of religious persecution against minorities, Modi in 2005 suffered the humiliation of seeing how the United States withdrew the entry visa into the country.
But suspicion falling on his rule on alleged violations of human rights have not weakened the professed admiration among his countrymen, who reiterated his confidence in the leader giving their votes and a new majority in the chamber.
Born in 1950 in the midst of a middle class family, Modi, a vegetarian meat consumption considered a waste of resources, he studied political science and joined radical formation Hindu Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
His rise in militancy boxes Conservative Party Bharatiya Janata Party-RSS-was akin to lightning, and soon became, in 2001 and a year before the riots that catapulted him to the "known" world, the regional general secretary in order to reorganize the training and attack power.
The trigger for those riots was the death of 58 Hindu pilgrims in the town of Godhra Gujarati in March 2002, when the train they were traveling stopped by a barricade of stones placed on the track and, moments later, caught fire.
Modi described the act as a "violent act of terrorism planned by one community against another," a clear accusation against Muslims that could spur the radical Hindus took to the streets.
With more than 1,000 deaths in the two months of unrest that followed these events, Modi could not ever shake off the stigma of the killings to the outside, but his popularity remains intact for most of his countrymen.
The reason is the economic situation in Gujarat, perhaps the strongest region of India, with an average annual growth exceeding 10 percent and a "change from the roots" that agricultural production has quadrupled and has made ​​the region a leader in power generation.
And the Modi Government has implemented a recipe for investment in infrastructure as a driver of economic growth that has paid off in the two times that has been reelected since (2002 and 2007), with the slogan "Vibrant Gujarat".
According to his biographers institutional, Modi is a visionary and a "pan-Indian image popular leader," passionate, young, energetic, writer, an astute politician, a speaker and a sharp negotiator who has earned "love and affection the masses. "
"I am eternally proud of being human and Hindu. Every time I feel I am large, extensive, I am sindhu (ethnicity of the area), "he wrote.
But some, less prone to visionary Modi, has been engaged to compile other compositions: the statements he made ​​during the ethnic slaughter, such as: "every action (in reference to fire the train) has an equal and opposite reaction."

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