Is Modi rattled by AK-49? By Amulya Ganguli | IANS India Private Limited/Yahoo India News – 20 hours ago Recommend19Tweet Print Narendra Modis rather unusually harsh criticism of Arvind Kejriwal can raise the question whether the Bharatiya Janata Partys (BJP) prime ministerial candidate has been unnerved by the challenge posed by the Aam Admi Party (AAP) leader in the contest for the Varanasi seat. Compared to the Gujarat chief minister, who won three successive terms in the state and is now the numero uno in the BJP, Kejriwal is an untested novice. Moreover, his curious way of functioning during his 49-day stint as Delhis chief minister, including staging a dharna, induced Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to call him an yeda, an expressive Marathi term for an eccentric. For someone like Modi, who is playing a prominent role on the national stage, the best way to treat a maverick like Kejriwal is with amused superciliousness. But to launch a vicious attack by calling him a Pakistani agent and a dushman (enemy) of the nation is to overshoot the mark. The funny aspect of his description of Kejriwal as AK-49, recalling his brief 49-day spell as chief minister, was lost in the subsequent tirade.
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