Amid allegations that a young woman in Gujarat was illegally tailed by some of the state's most senior police officers, the BJP's Narendra Modi, who is running for PM, today asserted that the country's women support him regardless of "threat or conspiracy". The Congress wants a Supreme Court judge to investigate allegations that in 2009, Mr Modi's close aide and then Home Minister Amit Shah verbally ordered the state police to monitor the movements and phone conversations of a young woman architect. In secretly-recorded phone conversations, Mr Shah allegedly says that "saheb" or 'boss' wants detailed reports of the woman's activities.
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