Even two years
back if you vividly remember BJP was still not looking like the party which
will lap up a clear mandate with patriarch LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi
helming party affairs. But three months pre LS 2014, and you just knew there
was one party and one man, the name was Narendra Damodar Modi. To be honest
there was not even a close second. How did the BJP world take such a
globbertrottish turn? The answer is Amit Shah.
An old friend of
Modi from the RSS days, he knew the game. He knew how to number crunch, and how
to turn the tide. Well, the result speaks volumes. Whenever, Modi-Shah have
combined to work in tandem, they have always hit a purple patch. The
consecutive Gujarat victories of Modi proved more than a point. But, 2014 was
the big stage, a platform where Amit Shah did not have any prior experience of.
Yet, he always managed to niche a perfect platform for Modi to swoon audiences.
Rallies after rallies, never ending press conferences, arranging the mob, Amit
Shah went from pillar to post to get things in order for Modi to take centrestage.
So, who is Amit
Shah?
First up he is
Modi’s right hand man. Shah on record is a shady figure. He was accused of
engineering two fake police encounters in 2004. He was hence also forced to
resign and that was followed by his arrest. Shah still maintains his initial
stand and says he is not guilty and was framed.
He then returned
to Gujarat and won the elections in 2012. This is when the game-plan started,
the game plan to throw the corrupt Congress out of power.
Fast forward two
years and today Amit Shah is the chief of the ruling party of a country which
has a whopping population of 1.25 billion people. He was also instrumental in
architecting the U.P win. A victory, which will go down in the history books as
‘one to remember’ because BJP has always been snubbed by the UP’ites. Today,
Amit Shah has a bigger role to play and we wish him all the courage and luck.
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