(LiveMint)
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah is credited with scripting the party’s spectacular success in Uttar Pradesh in the 2014 general elections and three years later in the assembly elections. Since being appointed party president in 2014, Shah has travelled to almost every district in the country to extend the BJP’s electoral footprint. Shah last week en route to Durgapur; coincidentally just a day after he clocked 1 million km in five years. Ensconced in the 10-seater private jet hired by the BJP, Shah, accompanied by a very limited entourage of personal staff was relaxed even while he fielded questions on the campaign, directed electoral preparations for the day and readied for his own stump speech scheduled in Jharkhand.
