Amit Shah Analysis
Role of Amit Shah
(source: Wall street journal)
Mr. Amit Shah is a longtime confidante of Mr. Modi. He is known as the second-most important man in the state of Gujarat, during Modi's more than 10-year tenure as the chief minister of Gujarat.
Amit shah rose to the top of the party due to his large part Modi's election campaign. He delivered parliamentary seats in northern India that were crucial to the BJP's landslide electoral victory in May 2014.
Amit Shah has known Narendra modi other for decades. Both began their political careers as members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist group. He has continously defended Narendra Modi from allegations that Modi didn't do enough to prevent religious riots in Gujarat in 2002, …show more content…
Kalim, a resident of Madhya Pradesh, came to Godhra only for the polls and surprisingly bagged 23,615 votes with a high-voltage campaign. Vaghela lost to BJP's Prabhatsinh Chauhan by just 2,081 votes because a large chunk of Muslim votes went to Sheikh.
This was not a coincidence that the BJP's in charge of Panchmahals seat was Amit Shah, sharp-shooter of Narendra modi. If there is one person whose political advice Modi would always give into, it is Shah's. Modi couldn't have given this job to fix Vaghela to anyone else but shah. Amit shah specialized in putting up independent candidates or propping up candidates of smaller parties who have potential to inflict damage on the main rival. He was also the home minister, that gave him the clout and muscle to bulldoze the potential trouble makers.
Every election campaign in Gujarat so far, ever since Narendra Modi became chief minister in 2001, has been orchestrated by him and Shah. Modi was always the face of the campaign, apart from being the master strategist, while Shah was his lynchpin — someone who would fix a problem by hook or …show more content…
Shah’s team estimated that only 35% of the BJP's traditional supporters had actually voted in the UP elections. Thus he focused on door-to-door campaigning at the booth-level. His team set up a 7-to-10 member management committee for each of the 140,000 voting booths in the state. For each booth, his team collated lists of voters and reached out to them personally.
His team used 450 GPS-enabled mobile vans ("video raths ") to reach out to the masses in remote areas, where the reach of the media was negligible. Shah personally covered 76 out of 80 Lok Sabha constituencies. He also insisted Modi to contest election from
(source: Wall street journal)
Mr. Amit Shah is a longtime confidante of Mr. Modi. He is known as the second-most important man in the state of Gujarat, during Modi's more than 10-year tenure as the chief minister of Gujarat.
Amit shah rose to the top of the party due to his large part Modi's election campaign. He delivered parliamentary seats in northern India that were crucial to the BJP's landslide electoral victory in May 2014.
Amit Shah has known Narendra modi other for decades. Both began their political careers as members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist group. He has continously defended Narendra Modi from allegations that Modi didn't do enough to prevent religious riots in Gujarat in 2002, …show more content…
Kalim, a resident of Madhya Pradesh, came to Godhra only for the polls and surprisingly bagged 23,615 votes with a high-voltage campaign. Vaghela lost to BJP's Prabhatsinh Chauhan by just 2,081 votes because a large chunk of Muslim votes went to Sheikh.
This was not a coincidence that the BJP's in charge of Panchmahals seat was Amit Shah, sharp-shooter of Narendra modi. If there is one person whose political advice Modi would always give into, it is Shah's. Modi couldn't have given this job to fix Vaghela to anyone else but shah. Amit shah specialized in putting up independent candidates or propping up candidates of smaller parties who have potential to inflict damage on the main rival. He was also the home minister, that gave him the clout and muscle to bulldoze the potential trouble makers.
Every election campaign in Gujarat so far, ever since Narendra Modi became chief minister in 2001, has been orchestrated by him and Shah. Modi was always the face of the campaign, apart from being the master strategist, while Shah was his lynchpin — someone who would fix a problem by hook or …show more content…
Shah’s team estimated that only 35% of the BJP's traditional supporters had actually voted in the UP elections. Thus he focused on door-to-door campaigning at the booth-level. His team set up a 7-to-10 member management committee for each of the 140,000 voting booths in the state. For each booth, his team collated lists of voters and reached out to them personally.
His team used 450 GPS-enabled mobile vans ("video raths ") to reach out to the masses in remote areas, where the reach of the media was negligible. Shah personally covered 76 out of 80 Lok Sabha constituencies. He also insisted Modi to contest election from