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Modi is now the head of the BJPs cam-paign to win back power in a national elec-tion due by next May, and is widely expected to become the partys prime ministerial can-didate. In the decade since, Modi has remade himself as a business-savvy, investor-friendly administrator, a charismatic leader who has presided over a booming economy and lured major foreign and Indian compa-nies to invest in his sprawling coastal state, famed for its spirit of entrepreneurship and as the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi. Modi has always vehemently denied the charge, and a Supreme Court inquiry found no evi-dence to prosecute him. Human rights groups and political rivals have long alleged that Modi, a Hindu and a dominant force in the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), allowed or even actively encouraged the attacks. The boycott stemmed from 2002 riots in Gujarat in which Hindu mobs killed at least 1,000 people, most of them Muslims. The January lunch at Ambassador Michael Steiners residence ended a de-cade-long unofficial EU boycott of the 62-year-old politician, who had just won his third straight term as chief minister of the state of Gujarat. It was a moment that captures the para-dox at the heart of Modi, and the caution with which the outside world approaches him. But nobody, the representatives from most of the 28 European Union states agreed, could publicly mention the man they were meeting that day: Narendra Modi, Indias most controversial politician and, possibly, the countrys next prime minister. The lunch guests were sworn to secrecy.The European diplomats gath-ered at the German ambassadors residence in New Delhis lush green em-bassy enclave quizzed the guest of honour on everything from the economy and com-munal violence to his political ambitions. But his ability to reinventhimself is central to the man The remaking of Narendra Modiindias most divisive politiciandenies he has changed hisimage. By Ross Colvin and sataRupa BhattaChaRjyaGandhinaGaR, GujaRat, july 12, 2013