Amit Shah a modern-day Chanakya and master strategist now a Minister in Modi Cabinet
New Delhi, May 30 (UNI) BJP President Amit Shah who was sworn in as a Cabinet minister in the Modi government on Thursday brings with him rich political experience of successfully managing the affairs of the world’s largest political party.
Emerging victorious from hard fought electoral battles over the past five years, Amit Shah, as party president, has made the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) an untiring, always-on-the move election winning machine.
Under his stewardship, the BJP has posted impressive victories elections after elections and returned to power at the Centre for the second time in a row. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most trusted lieutenant, Amit Shah was handpicked by him five years ago to lead the party and further spruce up the organization.
As a shrewd political strategist, Amit Shah tailored the party’s electoral strategy in Uttar Pradesh in 2014 elections and made the party post impressive victory with 71 Lok Sabha seats in its kitty which went on to achieve the party’s ``Mission 272’’. This time around, the BJP, riding on pro-incumbency wave and Modi’s popularity, bagged 62 seats from U.P. that sends 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha.
Not only U.P., Amit Shah held a crowded road show in Kolkata and addressed a number of rallies in Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s citadel and made inroads for the first time, winning 18 of the 42 total seats.
Amit Shah’s hard-line rhetoric and recounting of Modi government’s schemes have paid rich dividends for the party. Known to be a hard taskmaster, Amit Shah, a former Gujarat Home Minister, is also a man of planning micro details down to the ground level.
Dubbed a modern-day Chanakya and master strategist, Amit Shah’s unparalleled influence and stature in the party has catapulted him to the top. It was he who replaced BJP patriarch L K Advani from Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat, winning it with a huge margin this time.
Once a low-profile Gujarat State leader of the party in 1997, he had won an Assembly by-election against all odds but kept away from limelight.
He was brought to Parliament as a member of Rajya Sabha and in this year’s polls, he contested from Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency.
As party chief, he has taken some hard and controversial decisions as well. Be it denial of tickets to veterans like Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi or shifting Giriraj Singh to Begusarai in Bihar.
Now that ‘Amitbhai’ as he is popularly known has moved to the union cabinet, there is a debate in the saffron party – after Amit Shah who?