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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The one who stole the show was Narendra Modi. He made a power-point presentation without for a moment looking at the prepared text.
The Gujarat chief minister pointedly told the prime minister that though the Planning Commission was scaling down the growth target from over 8 per cent to a little over 7 per cent, Gujarat had registered a growth rate of over 15 per cent last year and was on course to repeat the feat this year too.
It wasn't just Modi's figures and statistics that impressed the chief ministers and senior babus at the NDC meet. Modi packaged his contents in a well-reasoned speech interspersed with pointed references to rising social and economic indicators made possible by policy measures undertaken by his government.
And because he had mastered his case well, there was not a soul in the main hall in Vigyan Bhawan who did not sit up and listen attentively to what he had to say.
At the end of his contribution, most chief ministers, including those belonging to the Congress, made it a point to congratulate Modi.
At the end of the first day, there was consensus among the participants that Modi's was by far the best.
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Related story on Rediff
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The one who stole the show was Narendra Modi. He made a power-point presentation without for a moment looking at the prepared text.
The Gujarat chief minister pointedly told the prime minister that though the Planning Commission was scaling down the growth target from over 8 per cent to a little over 7 per cent, Gujarat had registered a growth rate of over 15 per cent last year and was on course to repeat the feat this year too.
It wasn't just Modi's figures and statistics that impressed the chief ministers and senior babus at the NDC meet. Modi packaged his contents in a well-reasoned speech interspersed with pointed references to rising social and economic indicators made possible by policy measures undertaken by his government.
And because he had mastered his case well, there was not a soul in the main hall in Vigyan Bhawan who did not sit up and listen attentively to what he had to say.
At the end of his contribution, most chief ministers, including those belonging to the Congress, made it a point to congratulate Modi.
At the end of the first day, there was consensus among the participants that Modi's was by far the best.
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