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Narendra Modi's victory road show like never before

An Indian PM walking down the tree-lined streets of central Delhi is very uncommon

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi being garlanded by party president Amit Shah, Union ministers and others at the party headquarters to celebrate victory in UP and Uttrakhand Assembly elections, in New Delhi (Photo: PTI)

Nivedita MookerjiArup Roychoudhury New Delhi
The distance between Le Meridien hotel and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters on 11, Ashok Road, in the heart of Lutyens Delhi is hardly 600 metres. On a normal day, you can cover the distance by foot in not more than five to seven minutes.

On Sunday, however, only a braveheart would seek to cover that stretch at all. It was entirely a sea of saffron and green BJP flags, fluttering in the spring breeze. An estimated 10,000 BJP workers, supporters and voters descended to celebrate the BJP’s, and essentially Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s, thumping election victory in Uttar