The ultimate ‘outsider’ is coming home. Narendra Modi will arrive in his new karma bhoomi, Delhi, on Saturday to a welcome that will match his success in delivering a stunning victory for the BJP.
Chided as ‘chai-wallah’ and for long considered unfit to be part of the elite who run India from Lutyen’s Delhi, Narendra Modi’s arrival as the Prime Minister holds the potential to change the ‘culture’ of country’s power centre.
A man, whose father used to sell tea and mother worked as a house maid; someone who is not a member of any powerful old boys’ club, has been put at the highest pedestal of power by the faceless but determined millions.
They have chosen someone who has fought his hard way up; someone who finds solace at his mother’s feet… an ‘Aam Aadmi’ as the next Prime Minister.
The man of the moment has left Ahmedabad for Delhi and is scheduled to arrive at around 10:30 am. An army of BJP workers, led by party president Rajnath Singh, will receive him at the airport and accord him a red carpet welcome.
Modi’s victory march will then begin form the airport. Named ‘Vijay Yatra’, the 14-kilometre journey to the BJP HQ will see lakhs of people participate in the procession.