I kinda realized it yesterday and wanted to make a post about this yesterday itself, but it simply slipped my mind. But now the man, himself, has spoken about it today…

‘‘For long, I have been silent, now I feel like talking,’’ the Chief Minister said, addressing a gathering of BJP MPs, MLAs and workers in Ahmedabad. ‘‘I see a lot of similarity between Bush’s election speeches and my election speeches during 2002. Bush took up the issue of terrorism, something that I too did during my Gaurav Yatra,’’ [Narendra] Modi said. ‘‘Bush warned of America’s enemies, while I warned Gujarat’s enemies. I challenge political pundits to analyse that,’’ he added.

Incidentally, both Modi and Bush were voted back into power with more votes/seats than they had previously. And this was after exit polls in both the cases predicted a close race or an opposition win. And even this was after bitterly fought campaigns in which the ‘intellectual‘ Left in the respective countries termed them as incarnations of Hitler!!

Well… considering the fact that Modi hasn’t gone berserk with the increased power the people vested in his government, one can surely predict that something similar would happen in Bush’s case!