Therefore, it's a good sign that Modi is trying to open dialogue with India's largest minority community. It may not pay immediate political dividend but will go a long way in erasing Modi's almost pariah image among Muslims outside Gujarat.
Secondly, Narendra Modi has taken initiative to win back those mass based leaders of the party who had to leave because of intra-party political machinations. BJP has a long list of such leaders – from B S Yeddyurappa in Karnataka to Kalyan Singh in UP, Babulal Marandi in Jharkhand and Uma Bharti in MP among many others.
Assembly results in Karnataka clearly showed the electoral might of Yeddyurappa who was sidelined and humiliated despite having single handedly creating the mass base of the party in the state. Similarly, it was Kalyan Singh whose unique social engineering formula had made BJP almost invincible in UP once upon a time.
He was again sidelined because of BJP's dirty intra-party politics. The story of Babulal Marandi and Uma Bharti is no different. Modi was definitely moving in the right direction when he sent feelers to these leaders and initiated moves for their homecoming.
But one place where Narendra Modi has almost committed blunder is Bihar.
