Onetime comrades and now bitter political rivals- Keshubhai Patel and Narendra Modi. Analysts and poltical watchers are deeply divided over how the Keshubhai factor would affect the BJP in the Gujarat elections. But as the exit polls came in, it appeared that the Congress had overestimated the damage the GPP could inflict. With the exit polls suggesting that the Keshubhai factor in Saurashtra has done little to dent the BJP's chances of winning, the question is if the Congress' Keshubhai strategy has backfired.
