Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Muna 2001, hutano hwaKeshubhai Patel hwakanga huchikundikana uye BJP yakarasikirwa nezvigaro zvishomanene zveparamende musarudzo dzeparamende. Kupomerwa kwokushandiswa zvisina kufanira kwesimba, uori uye kutonga kwakashata kwakaitwa, uye chimiro chaPatel chakanga chakanganiswa nekubata kwehurumende yake kudengenyeka kwepasi muBhuj muna 2001
. Utungamiri hwenyika hweBJP hwakatsvaka mukwikwidzi mutsva nokuda kwechigaro chavakuru, uye Modi, uyo akanga aratidza kusava nechokwadi pamusoro pokutonga kwaPatel, akasarudzwa somutsivi. Kunyange zvazvo mutungamiri weBJP L. K. Advani akanga asingadi kurerutsa Patel uye ainetseka nokushayikwa kwechiitiko chaModi muhurumende, Modi akaramba kupiwa kuti ave mutevedzeri wegurukota guru raPatel, achiudza Advani naAtal Bihari Vajpayee kuti "aizova nemhosva yakazara yeGujarat kana kuti kwete zvachose". Musi wa3 Gumiguru 2001 akatsiva Patel saGurukota reGujarat, aine basa rekugadzirira BJP sarudzo dzaDecember 2002. Modi akapika semutungamiri wehurumende musi wa 7 Gumiguru 2001, uye akapinda muGujarat state legislature musi wa 24 Kukadzi 2002 nekukunda sarudzo dzekuwedzera kuRajkot <unk> II constituency, achikunda Ashwin Mehta we INC nemavhoti 14,728.