Denied an American US visa and snubbed by Wharton, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Sunday addressed Indian-Americans in the US via videoconference and urged them to make India their “top priority”, asserting his idea of secularism was “India First”.
Mr Modi, who is widely blamed for his role in the 2002 post-Godhra riots, said people will forgive “mistakes” by a government if “one is constantly committed to the welfare of the people” and follow the “politics of development”.
Mr Modi, considered the frontrunner as the BJP’s PM candidate for 2014, said while addressing NRIs at Edison, New Jersey, and Chicago that his “definition of secularism is simple: India first”.