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Modi covers a challenging journey

Narendra Modi

The 63-year-old BJP leader himself saw a combination of a very strong anti-Congress wave "together with an equally strong wave for BJP and its NDA partners" during the marathon campaign and seized upon these to decimate the UPA. Dismissing charges of being authoritarian, Modi says he believes in team work and that those who worked with him believed that he is strong-willed and decisive.