New Delhi: BJP leader Amit Shah, a close associate of PM Narendra Modi, could be named the new president of the BJP tomorrow after a meeting of the top decision-makers of the ruling party. Amit Shah, 50, if picked for the post, will succeed Rajnath Singh, now the Home Minister in union government.
With assembly elections due in Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand, the source said Shah had emerged the front-runner vis-a-vis colleagues such as J P Nadda and Om Prakash Mathur. In the national elections in May, Mr Shah, engineered a massive victory for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state, delivering 71 of the state’s 80 parliamentary seats.
Amit Shah faces murder charges for allowing the extra-judicial killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, a small-time criminal, his wife and a witness. Amit Shah, currently a general secretary of the BJP, says the murder charges are a political conspiracy.
During the campaign for the national election, Mr Shah was banned by the powerful Election Commission from rallies and speeches after it found him guilty of delivering “hate speeches” designed to promote “hatred and ill will” between religions.
The ban was lifted after Mr Shah vowed in writing that he would not he promised not to “use abusive or derogatory language in the campaign.
Bureau Report
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