Modi and book value

Yet another former media advisor to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is coming out with a book. But it is not about his days in the Prime Minister's Office or relations between Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi. Harish Khare, who was Singh's media advisor between June 2009 and January 2012, has written about how Narendra Modi won the elections in 2014 that catapulted him to be the country's fifteenth prime minister. The book, How Modi Won: Memoirs of 2014 Elections, is to be published by Hachette, but has not seen much pre-launch publicity. Few know that Khare, with a doctorate in political science from Yale, was the resident editor of The Times of India in Ahmedabad many years ago and had seen from close quarters the evolution of Modi as a powerful leader in Gujarat. But coming from a former media advisor to Singh, the account of how Modi won the 2014 elections should provide some more material for public debate and discussion.