Not unexpectedly, therefore, it is flashing its old trump card, commulism, to boost its own morale and rally its supporters. Hence the posters about the battle being between RAM — (Vijay) Rupani, Amit Shah and Modi — and HAJ — Hardik Patel, Alpesh Thakor and Jignesh Mewani. Rupani, as is known, is Gujarat’s somewhat unprepossessing Chief Minister. The commul undertone of the message is as clear as the distinction which a Union minister once made about the ongoing tussle in the country being between Ramzade or the children of the Hindu god, Ram, and Haramzade or children born out of wedlock. As before, in targeting the Congress, Modi has delved into history to project the party as one which has been consistently anti-Gujarat as its “failure” to make Vallabhbhai Patel and Morarji Desai prime ministers showed.