Party president Rajnath Singh sat next to Mr Modi as he made the announcement on Friday evening, after a meeting of the BJP's top decision makers. Behind them a giant photo of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee presided as an era was brought to a close in the BJP and another began.
"The BJP has a tradition of declaring its candidate for PM... the BJP's parliamentary party board has decided that Mr. Narendra Modi will be our prime ministerial candidate in 2014," Mr. Singh said.
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