Lakshadweep row: Patel not afraid of stepping on toes on way to 'reform'

Patel's dream is to put Lakshadweep on a par with a high-end tourist revenue earner like the Maldives. But how can you do that without even the basics?

In July 2010, Gujarat home minister, Amit Shah, went to jail. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had taken over investigations into the death of history-sheeter Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausar Bi in January 2010 on the direction of the Supreme Court and Shah was named in the chargesheet. It was a five-year-old case. And though Shah was released on bail three months later, for then chief minister Narendra Modi, the immediate question was: Who could be Shah’s successor.

Modi overlooked the claims of many other senior BJP leaders to strike upon Praful K Patel, who then remained Home