Will Modi make it to Race Course Road?
Snakes & ladders is a game of steep jumps, sudden falls & of course, chance. Politics isn’t very different, definitely not the political career of Narendra Modi. Play this game & watch how Modi graduated from working in a tea stall to a front-runner for the Prime Minister's job.
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- PM Advani & Deputy PM Modi?
- 2014
ELECTIONS - A third front coalition led by Nitish Kumar against Modi?
- A day later, Advani withdraws his resignation.
- Advani quits all BJP posts.
- Modi appointed BJP poll head for 2014 elections.
- Modi becomes CM for a record 4th term. December 2012.
- Anil Ambani compares Modi with Mahatma Gandhi. January 2013.
- Following UK's footsteps,
EU ends Modi boycott. February 2013. - Wharton India Economic Forum withdraws invitation to Modi.
March 2013. - Powered by Modi, BJP wins all 6 by-polls in Gujarat.
June 2013. - Advani skips BJP's national executive meet in Goa, citing "upset stomach"
- UK ends
Modi
boycott. October 2012. - Modi crosses a million followers on Twitter. October 2012.
- Maya Kodnani, ex-minister in
Modi's cabinet,
sentenced to 28 years.
August 2012. - Friend-turned-foe Keshubhai Patel rebels, floats own party.
- IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt files an affidavit in SC against Modi.
April 2012. - "An sms (to Tata) that cost one rupee bought the Nano plant here." – Narendra Modi
(June 2010) - 8,500 MoUs worth $241 billion signed at Vibrant Gujarat summit.
2009. - Nitish Kumar asks Modi to stay away from Bihar.
July 2010. - Supreme Court appointed SIT gives Modi clean chit.
April 2011. - Modi begins a series of Sabdhavana fasts in Ahmedabad.
September 2011. - Days later, he refuses to wear a 'skull cap' offered by a Muslim cleric at the fast.
- Modi woos Tata to open the Nano factory in Gujarat after Bengal unrest.
October 2008. - Modi sweeps Gujarat polls again.
2007 - Deals worth Rs 6.6 lakh crore signed at Vibrant Gujarat summit.
January 2007. - US denies Visa.
March 2005. - apologises a week later.
- Modi spars with business leaders at a CII meet over Gujarat riots in February 2003.
- Advani attends Modi's swearing-in.
- Gujarat riots leave hundreds dead, thousands displaced.
February-March 2002. - PM Vajpayee contemplates sacking Modi, exhorts him to follow 'Raj Dharma'. Advani saves Modi's job
- Stung by criticism, Modi dissolves assembly, comes back with a thumping majority.
December 2002. - Appointed Chief Minister of Gujarat by PM A. B. Vajpayee.
October 2001. - Modi, backed by RSS and Advani, is a set to replace Patel
- Gujarat CM Keshubhai Patel quits after criticismfor mishandling quake relief andslowing investments.
- Appointed
General Secretary
of BJP. 1998. - Shunted to Delhi in 1995 partly because of fallouts with senior Gujarat BJP leaders.
- Born September 17, 1950 to a family of grocers in Vadnagar, Gujarat.
- Works at a tea stall, joins RSS.
- Becomes a RSS Pracharak for six Gujarat districts.
1971. - JOINS THE BJP
1987. - Modi was one of the choreographers of Advani's Rath Yatra.
1990. - Modi's strategy leads to BJP's victory in Gujarat.
1995. - "Gujarat is the shortest cut to Delhi"
– L K Advani
(March 1995)
Rules of the game:
- a) Ladders represent career defining successes, moments of glory
- b) Snakes represent moments of infamy or missteps
- c) The last five squares are yet to be played