Edited sentence: He is strong defender of Narendra Modi the Chief minister of Gujarat state who, according to some, restricted the police to take action and stop the communal violence.Togadia is actually banned from speaking in several districts of several states of the country, owing to his talent of provoking communal tensions and has been detained by Indian police several times.Togadia is blamed by many for organising the 2002 Ayodhya stand-off.While elderly leaders like Acharya Giriraj Kishore and Ashok Singhal led the VHP from the 1970s, the reins of the organisation in the 21st century seems to be passing to a younger, more radical and vigorous generation, headed by Praveen Togadia, a Gujarati oncologist