India News: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi would surely arrive in Goa for the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) National Executive with a sense of déjà vu.
Eleven years ago, Modi reached the city facing perhaps the toughest challenge of his political career, pitted as he was against BJP icon and the then prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Vajpayee, then at the peak of his popularity, is said to have asked Modi to resign, taking responsibility for the communal riots in the state under his chief minister ship.
According to most accounts, Modi had offered to step down but a sudden burst of support from the party's executive members saved the day for him.
That national meet of the BJP was nothing less than a turning point for Modi, as it transformed him from an 'about-to-be-discarded chief minister' to a national leader of the party.
