Marking Out The Roadmap
- Will the Ishrat Jahan case scorch Modi’s PM dreams? It’s definitely going to singe him.
- Two persons close to him may be questioned for calls around the time of the encounter.
- To counter this, the BJP could prepone the announcement of Modi being its PM candidate.
- Modi could contest from Varanasi and Allahabad. He may also contest from Gujarat.
- Modi’s aide Shah, now in UP, has raised the emotional pitch by invoking the Ram temple.
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How close to Narendra Modi will the fake encounter probes actually get? There is the possibility of a private secretary to the Gujarat chief minister being questioned by the CBI about receiving a phone call from the telephone number of a particular individual at the time the Ishrat Jahan encounter took place in June 2004. Amit Shah, a BJP general secretary considered the closest aide of the chief minister, is likely to be questioned too, again about calls made...
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