Meanwhile, BJP, piggybacked to the state corridor of power in 2002 with the active support of the Hindu godmen, is now trying to shed its radical Hindu image.

While senior BJP leader of the state Surendra Patel recently said that the sants should refrain from directly indulging in politics, party general secretary Jayanti Barot, while talking to media here on Tuesday, said the “sants are unhappy as they had perceived that once in power, BJP will only pursue the Hindutva agenda in Gujarat, which was not the case”

Such stances, meanwhile, are not going down well with the other wings of Sangh Parivar. While the sants, who during the last Assembly elections had projected Modi as the poster boy of Hindutva, are now finding him “anti-Hindu”, the Kisan Sangh is siding with the rebels. Praful Sanjaliya, Gujarat President of Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, had earlier said that if necessary BKS will go so far as to coordinate with the Congress to remove Modi.