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Part One: Narendra Modi, And India's Weird Nazi Obsession

Behind the Bastards

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Uh Mody Joined the BJP in the 1980s

Nurindramodi started at the bottom of the party but his skill as an organizer ensured that he rose rapidly by the 1980s. He became a senior figure in the bjp's guzrati chapter and undertook a two month pilgrimage called the rahm rahtheatra across the indian heartland traveling aboard a nissan jeep refitted to look like a chariot. His job was to organize the gujrat section of the chariot march which sparked a series of horrific bloody hindu muslim riots all across the subcontinent. The violence took weeks to die down and it was particularly bad in mumbai where muslims were forced either by mobs or

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