Hindu nationalist leader Narendra Modi on Monday ended a three-day fast seen as an attempt to bury his controversial past and promote him as a serious prime ministerial contender.
The Gujarat chief minister, accused of complicity in anti-Muslim riots that swept the state in 2002, broke his self-styled “harmony” fast by sipping juice given to him by Hindu, Muslim and Christian supporters.
“My fast may have ended but my mission has not. My ‘harmony´ mission has united all of India,” Modi declared to a crowd in an air-conditioned auditorium in Gujarat’s main commercial city of Ahmedabad.
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