Maximum Campaign: Modi unleashes a blitzkrieg never seen before in Indian electoral history

"It's May 2. In the BJP war room in Varanasi's Surya Hotel, Amit Shah is huddled over an India map like a general plotting his next move. The phone rings. It's his boss, Narendra Modi. After a public rally in Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh, the BJP prime ministerial candidate is rushing back to Gandhinagar for a 3D holographic speech that will be relayed to 100 locations, mostly in parts of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. BJP pollsters have alerted party strategists that Lalu Prasad Yadav has been gaining ground in Bihar while in eastern Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party and Congress may be shoring up their respective vote banks. The outcome of the brief conversation, conducted in chaste Gujarati, is that Modi will go to Rahul Gandhi's constituency, Amethi, on May 5 to quell Priyanka Gandhi's surging media momentum..."