INDIA-EDUCATION-CONVOCATION

Indian Gujarat State Chief Minister and Bhartiya Janta Party's Prime Ministeral Candidate, Narendra Modi (R), and Reliance Industries CMD and Chairman of the Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University Board (PDPU), Mukesh Ambani speak during the 3rd convocation of the Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University in Gandhinagar, around 30 kms from Ahmedabad on October 19, 2013. Indian opposition hardliner Narendra Modi has boosted his party's chances of winning looming general elections since being named as its prime ministerial candidate last month, an opinion poll showed on October 17, 2013 . Many are convinced Modi, 63, can replicate Gujarat's economic success at the national level and revive India's slumping growth, but he remains tainted by deadly religious riots that erupted in his home state. AFP PHOTO/ Sam PANTHAKY (Photo credit should read SAM PANTHAKY/AFP via Getty Images)