couple of hours that you spend in the riot-hit city you find it is not the BJP t hat is asking

for the votes of an excited section of Hindus, but it is the peopl e who are clinging to Narendra Modi. Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt reports on the sentiment on the ground in Muzaffarnaga r, whose Hindu-Muslim fracture is a long way from being mended. The first in a two-part series: In India, many political pundits say, the people crave for development this time . Rahul Gandhi is talking about the development of the poor and of those who have not been able to break into the middle class, while Narendra Modi has crafted an image of himself as a Dada of development. But in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, the vote is NOT for development. Once you leave New Delhi, bypass Ghaziabad, move further and cross Meerut to rea ch Muzaffarnagar, you realise the people are not even talking about sadak-bijlipaani here. Today, Muzaffarnagar reminds one of Gujarat after Godhra.