The Nano Car Comes to Gujarat, “The Land of Entrepreneurs”.

Mr. Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat from the Hindu focused BJP Party, came to Ahmedabad on Wednesday to inaugurate a new highway (new malls and highway are springing up quickly as Ahmedabad evolves into a mega city). Mr. Modi recently received a lot of press as Tata (one of India’s premier conglomerates) designated Gujarat as the production base of the new Nano car – terrific for Gujarat’s economy. Immediately, signs went up congratulating Modi, welcoming Tata, and hailing Gujarat as the “Land of Entrepreneurs”.

Many of the rickshaw drivers (at least the Hindu ones) this week were very excited about “Shree” Modi’s arrival and voiced their admiration as we drove by Modi/Tata signs. I listened to Modi speak for about 10 minutes – but given that he was speaking in Hindi and I had no one to translate, I took a few pictures and left. There were well over 2,000 people seated and many more on the streets watching Modi speak on the large projection screens.