The Bhartiya Janta Party Chief Amit Shah, born as Amitbhai Anilchandra in Bombay on 22 October 2018 to a rich businessman, Anilchandra Shah, turned 54 on Monday.
Also known as ‘Chanakya’ and ‘man behind Naren Mod,’ Amit shah is playing very important role in Narendra Modi led Bharatiya Janata Party. His abilities to keep his ear to the ground and establish deep and lasting connect with party workers enable him to hone his organisational capabilities.
On his birthday, we share some fun and lesser known facts about Amit Shah
* Amit Shah, born as Amitbhai Anilchandra holds a graduate degree in Biochemistry. Before entering into politics, he initially helped his father who was running a PVC pipe business. Later he worked as stockbroker and even joined some cooperative banks.
* Amit Shah was a leader of ABVP at the time of his school days. He belongs to RSS from his childhood and at the time of doing his graduation; he legitimately became a volunteer of RSS.
* In 1991 and 1996, Amit Shah managed election campaigns for Lal Krishna Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee that helped him to emerge as an excellent election manager and strategist.
* In 2010, Shah was accused of orchestrating two fake police encounter cases when he was the state minister in charge of Home Affairs., after which he was forced to resign on the allegations of fake encounters.
* For two years Amit Shah was banished from Gujarat by the Supreme Court confirmed his role in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.
