Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been the target of unjustified political demonization primarily by the Congress leaders and the so-called ‘secularists’ of this country for more than a decade. Legally no person can be presumed guilty unless proved. Then why do apex level Congress leaders term Modi as ‘Maut ka Saudagar’ and ‘Hitler’. Why is the Congress leadership so obsessively afraid of Narendra Modi? Obviously because the vast majority of citizens of the Indian Republic want a strong leader to lead India, a fact endorsed even by India’s top industrialists.

Congress leaders’ denunciation and demonization of Chief Minister Modi cannot erase the positive impressions of the Indian public of the tremendous economic growth attained by Gujarat under Modi’s dynamic leadership.
 
The economic dynamism of Gujarat under Modi’s leadership stands endorsed by India’s top industrialists. They feel confident that with Modi’s good governance and dynamism for economic growth and advancement of Gujarat, this State is attractive for their investments.
 
The why does the Congress President Sonia Gandhi reportedly term him as ‘Maut ka Saudagar’? Why do Congress leaders who are no match for Modi denigrate him as Hitler? The NGO’s involved in the proxy campaign of vilification of Modi - where do they get their funds from?
 
I think the Congress core fears revolve around the fact that it is Modi only who can derail the dynastic plans of succession in the Congress for 2014. It is Modi alone who inspires a lot of Indians to wish that Modi becomes the Prime Minister to lead India from the darkness that India has descended in the last eight years. It is Modi alone whose nationalistic credentials find an echo in the India’s teeming millions under thirty also nationalistically imbued. This is what troubles the Congress about Modi.
 
I am neither a Gujarati nor a member of any political outfit but as an honest and patriotic Indian, I do not like political doublespeak and political double-standards. Why since 1984 has the Congress Party shirked from bringing to book the Congress leaders who were involved in the 1984 massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi? Why were lumpen elements led by local Congress leaders allowed to run amuck in Delhi for nearly three days massacring innocent Sikhs without the Army being called as publicly reported? 
 
The Congress seems to have reduced the Gujarat Assembly Elections at the end of this year into a ‘Congress versus Modi’ battle and not a ‘Congress versus BJP’  fight.  One can visualise that as the election date nears there will be an intensification of the Congress smear campaign against Modi. It is time for all right thinking Gujaratis in Gujarat and all over the world to unite and ensure Modi’s election victory in 2012 by active involvement. What is at stake is not Modi’s honour but the honour of Gujarat because by implication Godhra incident smear campaign perceptively is being sought to be laid as a collective guilt of Gujarat.