Days after the BJP criticized Sonia Gandhi's meeting with the Shahi Imam as brazen communalism, the party's president Rajnath Singh has met and appears to have won the backing of an important Shia cleric in Lucknow, from where he is running for Parliament. br br Maulana Kalbe Jawad today praised the BJP president by comparing him to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a five-time MP from Lucknow who is still the gold standard for voters here. br br "We are scared of Narendra Modi, but Rajnath Singh has the acceptability of Vajpayee," the cleric told.