Amid the poll heatwave, two old friends in their 60s, Abdul Gafur Shaikh and Anwar Hussain, discuss politics huddled outside Noorani Masjid, which guards the entrance to Naroda Patiya, a locality in which 97 were killed in the 2002 post-Godhra riots. In the 2022 assembly poll, the saffron party has fielded Dr Payal Kukrani, 25, the daughter of Manoj Kukrani, who was convicted in the Naroda Patiya massacre case.