Twice unlucky

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi may be on the verge of being declared the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate, moving one step towards fulfilling a long-held ambition. But he appears to have less luck with technology on which he relies heavily to spread his message. During the Vibrant Gujarat Global Agriculture Summit in Gandhinagar the audio-visual systems failed as soon as he began his address. This was the second time in succession that the Gujarat CM had to face such an embarrassment during a mega-event at his favourite venue of Mahatma Mandir. In June this year at the inaugural session of the All India Conference on Livestock and Dairy Development Modi was left red-faced as the audio-visual system collapsed just as he began his address.