<p>Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party national president Nitin Gadkari have apparently buried the hatchet as the two leaders shared a dais at Modi’s “rathyatra” here on Monday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Gadkari promised that the party would “replicate the Gujarat model across the country if voted to power.” <br /><br />With the 2012 Gujarat Assembly elections round the corner, such a move was necessary for both Modi and Gadkari, whose troubled relationship had forced the intervention of e Sangh Parivar leaders, culminating in the ouster of Sanjay Joshi, the then party general secretary.<br />The two leaders put up a show of unity at the religious township of Ambaji in North Gujarat as Modi continued his month-long Vivekanand Yuva Vikas Yatra. <br /><br />Buoyed by the new found camaraderie, both of them lashed out at the United Progressive Alliance government terming it corrupt . Modi focussed his attack on the Congress and the Gandhi family. <br /><br />At another function in Rajkot, Modi compared himself with Rahul Gandhi only to take a dig at the Congress leader. He said while Rahul “is an international leader,” he (Modi) was “just” a regional leader. “The leaders of the Congress have been saying that the Gandhi scion cannot be compared with a regional leader like me, for he is not only capable enough to contest from anywhere in India but also from Italy,” Modi said sarcastically.<br />Gadkari said the country had been in the hands of a single family (Gandhis).<br /></p>
<p>Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party national president Nitin Gadkari have apparently buried the hatchet as the two leaders shared a dais at Modi’s “rathyatra” here on Monday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Gadkari promised that the party would “replicate the Gujarat model across the country if voted to power.” <br /><br />With the 2012 Gujarat Assembly elections round the corner, such a move was necessary for both Modi and Gadkari, whose troubled relationship had forced the intervention of e Sangh Parivar leaders, culminating in the ouster of Sanjay Joshi, the then party general secretary.<br />The two leaders put up a show of unity at the religious township of Ambaji in North Gujarat as Modi continued his month-long Vivekanand Yuva Vikas Yatra. <br /><br />Buoyed by the new found camaraderie, both of them lashed out at the United Progressive Alliance government terming it corrupt . Modi focussed his attack on the Congress and the Gandhi family. <br /><br />At another function in Rajkot, Modi compared himself with Rahul Gandhi only to take a dig at the Congress leader. He said while Rahul “is an international leader,” he (Modi) was “just” a regional leader. “The leaders of the Congress have been saying that the Gandhi scion cannot be compared with a regional leader like me, for he is not only capable enough to contest from anywhere in India but also from Italy,” Modi said sarcastically.<br />Gadkari said the country had been in the hands of a single family (Gandhis).<br /></p>
