New Delhi, May 15 -- At a BJP organisational meeting in Madhya Pradesh in the late 1990s, Narendra Modi - then the party's election in charge for the state - asked workers how many had email IDs. Most had no idea what email was. Senior leader Babulal Gaur misheard the word entirely, asking what this "female" thing was and why they needed it. Modi quietly explained that the future of governance, communication and political organisation would run on technology. Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who was present that day as State General Secretary, recalls it as the moment he first understood how far ahead Modi was thinking - at a time when email was alien even to senior politicians, Modi was already building a digital organisational backbo...