India’s interior minister has been Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s closest aide for decades and is seen as a potential successor
Amit Shah, a leader of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party , addresses party supporters during an election campaign rally in Ahmedabad, India, April 30, 2024.India’s interior minister Amit Shah, accused by Canada of being behind plots to target Sikh separatists in that country, has been Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s closest aide for decades and is widely seen as his hard-nosed alter ego and potential successor.
When Modi attended his first press conference in India as prime minister in 2019, he made a brief statement but took no questions, pointing to then-ruling party president Shah sitting by him. “As a vigilant and alert administrator, Amitbhai Anilchandra Shah considers weak and lumpy security to be a major obstacle in the development of society, country and state,” Shah’s website says.
Born in Mumbai, he has been an elected politician for more than 25 years. The son of a prosperous family in Gujarat, Shah left school around the age of 18, according to a declaration signed in the 2019 general election.
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