Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s key aide Amit Shah is all set to be the next Bharatiya Janata Party President as his name has almost been finalised. The BJP’s Parliamentary Board will meet on Wednesday to nominate him.
Modi’s most trusted lieutenant will now be in-charge of the organisation. Amit Shah started his political career with the youth wing of the BJP and came in touch with Modi when the latter was deputed in Ahmedabad by the RSS in 80s’.
During Keshu Bhai Patel’s regime, with Modi wielding great influence in the Gujarat BJP, Shah was nominated to contest Sarkhej by-election at a young age of 34. He won and when Modi became the chief minister of the state almost five years later, Shah was a minister holding as many as 12 portfolios.
But trouble started for Amit Shah when he was named and arrested in the Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram Prajapati case. He got bail later, but was barred from entering Gujarat for almost two years. Finally, Shah got a reprieve just before the last assembly polls, when he was permitted to visit Gujarat and contest polls which he comfortably won. But the real fillip to his career were the 2014 General Elections.
Just before the elections, he was made in-charge of UP where he turned the table of the Opposition to register an emphatic victory with BJP winning 73 out of 80 seats in alliance with Apna Dal.
