Of those inducted into the BJP at that time, it is Narendra Modi whom history will remember. His biographer Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay says that he was chosen mainly because he came from Gujarat, the laboratory of a novel, virulent strain of Hindu politics.42 Both he and Amit Shah had been critical of Vajpayee’s ‘Gandhian socialism’ and were fine-tuning a strategy of uniting high- and low-caste Hindus by using Muslims as scapegoats.
Advani recruiting RSS ideology to the BJP.
