In the 2014 general election campaign, when L K Advani lost the race to become his party’s prime ministerial face to his junior colleague, then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, Advani took a sly dig at Modi saying, “Modi is not my protégé, he is an expert event manager.” Ten years later, after a decade of Modi’s prime ministership, Advani’s words ring truer than ever. The multi-pronged preparations for the inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya on January 22 reveal the Modi publicity and event management machine working to perfection.
