Modi covers a challenging journey

A master strategist, Modi has come a long way from selling tea at railway station for his father to emerge as a pan India leader. There are many of his critics who contest his claim of having sold tea. Inspired by life and teachings of Gautam Buddha and Swami Vivekananda, Modi had left his Vadnagar home in the as a youth and joined the RSS as a pracharak. At a tender age he used to sell tea, first at the railway station of his village where his father had a tea stall and later at the canteen of Ahmedabad city bus terminal.