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.
Nishikant DUbey is proud of his “doctorate”. He and others of his ilk (e.g. Sanjeev Balyan) are far removed from the realities of the academic world. The sweat and grind necessary to actually earn a PhD in any discipline is alien for them. Nor can they put up with the consistent demands of academia. Their PhDs are obtained through connections and political might. No wonder, the degrees are from third class universities, the VCs of whom hold on to their chairs at the discretion of Dubey and his friends.
Amit Shah, in his desperation to lay claim to PM candidacy, has enabled the rise of a very dangerous kind of politics and politicians. People like Dubey and Balyan are not Hindutva champions, they are just power hungry idiots. If Hindutva paves their way to the chair, they would gladly champion it. However, if times were to change and some other ideology was to dominate, they would happily change colours and subscribe to the new ideology. Their devotion is to power.
By emboldening and promoting such people Amit Shah is bringing about the destruction of the BJP.