Amit Shah is an Indian politician and a key strategist of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has served as India’s Minister of Home Affairs since 2019, making him a three-time Home Minister, and has been the country’s first Minister of Cooperation since 2021. Previously, he was the BJP President from 2014 to 2020, playing a crucial role in the party’s electoral successes.
A close aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Shah’s political career began with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its student wing, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). Shah joine the RSS in1982 and the BJP in 1987 and rose up to become a key figure in Gujarat politics. After the 2002 Gujarat assembly elections, he became the youngest minister in then Chief Minister Modi’s cabinet, holding 12 portfolios, including the Ministry of Home. Shah represented the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from Sarkhej (1997–2012) and Naranpura (2012–2017).
In 2017, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat, and in 2019, he was elected to the Lok Sabha from Gandhinagar. He took oath as a Lok Sabha member in June 2024.
Shah has been embroiled in several controversies, including accusations of involvement in extrajudicial killings during his tenure as Gujarat’s Home Minister and his alleged role in illegal surveillance. His handling of the inter-tribe conflict in Manipur, which began in 2023, has attracted criticism, with many questioning the government’s response to the escalating violence and the security situation in the region.
What makes you think that Modi undermined democratic ideals more than anyone else did?
He is running around the country morning thru night all round the year seeking public support and votes getting up every morning trying to prove himself. That sound like more democratic to me than a bunch of entitled dynasts who think they are born to rule. Opposition was ready to malign the entire election process had they not done better this time. That sounds like more undemocratic to me than BJP and Modi who have worked for decades to reach where they are.
People like you can’t stand anyone becoming successful. A typical looser mentality.
DK Singh proved again that he is confirmed Modi-fan. He mentioned “Imagine the reactions if Modi repeats these lines today in the current context.” Modi’s lines were ““Jyada se jyada mera kya kar lenge?”. As per DK Singh Modi cannot be undermined or marginalize because Modi has been instrumental in RSS’s phenomenal rise. I want to remind the fanboy DK Singh that had Hitler or Xi Xinping or Putin ruled India, our country would have been most powerful in 10 years. Would he like that? If political power is a determination of success without considering democratic ideals, then animal kingdom where animalistic power rules is the best. I don’t understand if DK Singh deserves to be a journalist. Legislative, executive, judiciary, media exist because of democracy; when any person from one of these especially media undermines democratic ideals, it is like a person cutting the same branch where he is sitting.