- Amit Shah was born as Amitbhai Anilchandra on October 22, 1964. Mumbai is the birthplace of Shah and he is brought from a well-to-do joint family.
- Shah comes from an affluent family and the ancestral house in Mansa is a heritage building. Interested in national politics since the early 1980s, he gave up his PVC pipes business to join politics full-time.
- Everyone in his constituency had his mobile number.
- He has never lost an election he has contested.
- Shah believes if he had not been “sent to jail by the Congress” in 2010 in an alleged fake encounter case, he would not have been at the centrestage of his party’s politics in 2014. He says the jail term changed his life
- During an election in the 1990s, Shah, while sitting in a small restaurant near the Ahmedabad railway station, told Modi: “Narendrabhai, get ready to become Prime Minister of India.”
- He is the president of Gujarat Cricket Association.
A modern day Chanakya of INDIAN POLITICS.