A rift has opened up in the NDA over the attempted projection of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as the NDA’s probable prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections.

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A rift has opened up in the NDA over the atte-mpted projection of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as the NDA’s probable prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections.

A section in the BJP warning of the pitfalls of projecting Gujarat CM Narendra Modi as the NDA’s candidate for PM in the 2014 general elections feels this will impact them in UP too, which has 19 per cent of the minority vote and where Assembly elections are due next year.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Wednesday threatened to issue a call to arms, saying he would raise a force of 11,000 people trained to hit back if the government tried to disrupt their anti-corruption campaign. The Durga Vahini and Bajrang Dal, two hardline outfits of the Sangh Parivar, have come out in support of Ramdev’s call, seen by his critics as an example of the militant face of Hindutva.