Will Modi make it to Race Course Road?

Snakes & ladders is a game of steep jumps, sudden falls & of course, chance. Politics isn’t very different, definitely not the political career of Narendra Modi. Play this game & watch how Modi graduated from working in a tea stall to a front-runner for the Prime Minister's job.

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• PM Advani &Deputy PMModi?
• 2014
  ELECTIONS
• A third front coalition led by Nitish Kumar against Modi?
• A day later, Advani withdraws his resignation.
• Advani quits all BJP posts.
• Modi appointed BJP poll head for 2014 elections.
• Modi becomes CM for a record 4th term. December 2012.
• Anil Ambani compares Modi with Mahatma Gandhi. January 2013.
• Following UK's footsteps,
  EU ends Modi boycott. February 2013.
• Wharton India Economic Forum withdraws invitation to Modi.
  March 2013.
• Powered by Modi, BJP wins all 6 by-polls in Gujarat.
  June 2013.
• Advani skips BJP's national executive meet in Goa, citing "upset stomach"
• UK ends
  Modi
  boycott. October 2012.
• Modi crosses a million followers on Twitter. October 2012.
• Maya Kodnani, ex-minister in
  Modi's cabinet,
  sentenced to 28 years.
  August 2012.
• Friend-turned-foe Keshubhai Patel rebels, floats own party.
• IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt files an affidavit in SC against Modi.
  April 2012.
• "An sms (to Tata) that cost one rupee bought the Nano plant here." – Narendra Modi
  (June 2010)
• 8,500 MoUs worth $241 billion signed at Vibrant Gujarat summit.
  2009.
• Nitish Kumar asks Modi to stay away from Bihar.
  July 2010.
• Supreme Court appointed SIT gives Modi clean chit.
  April 2011.
• Modi begins a series of Sabdhavana fasts in Ahmedabad.
  September 2011.
• Days later, he refuses to wear a 'skull cap' offered by a Muslim cleric at the fast.
• Modi woos Tata to open the Nano factory in Gujarat after Bengal unrest.
  October 2008.
• Modi sweeps Gujarat polls again.
  2007
• Deals worth Rs 6.6 lakh crore signed at Vibrant Gujarat summit.
  January 2007.
• US denies Visa.
  March 2005.
• apologises a week later.
• Modi spars with business leaders at a CII meet over Gujarat riots in February 2003.
• Advani attends Modi's swearing-in.
• Gujarat riots leave hundreds dead, thousands displaced.
  February-March 2002.
• PM Vajpayee contemplates sacking Modi, exhorts him to follow 'Raj Dharma'. Advani saves Modi's job
• Stung by criticism, Modi dissolves assembly, comes back with a thumping majority.
  December 2002.
• Appointed Chief Minister of Gujarat by PM A. B. Vajpayee.
  October 2001.
• Modi, backed by RSS and Advani, is a set to replace Patel
• Gujarat CM Keshubhai Patel quits after criticismfor mishandling quake relief andslowing investments.
• Appointed
  General Secretary
  of BJP. 1998.
• Shunted to Delhi in 1995 partly because of fallouts with senior Gujarat BJP leaders.
• Born September 17, 1950 to a family of grocers in Vadnagar, Gujarat.
• Works at a tea stall,joins RSS.
• Becomes a RSS Pracharak for six Gujarat districts.
  1971.
• JOINS THE BJP
  1987.
• Modi was one of the choreographers of Advani's Rath Yatra.
  1990.
• Modi's strategy leads to BJP's victory in Gujarat.
  1995.
• "Gujarat is the shortest cut to Delhi"
  – L K Advani
  (March 1995)