Click to play videoNew Delhi: Facing the Central Bureau of Investigation heat in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter case Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah has not been seen for the last few days. The CBI on Thursday summoned him twice to appear before the investigating agency in the case but the minister continued with his disappearing act and remained elusive.
Amit Shah has been the right hand man of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for the last decade. Now he Amit Shah is embroiled in the biggest controversy of his political career, a career which he owes largely to Modi.
Beginning his political career as a student leader, Shah got elected as an MLA for the first time in 1997. But his clout increased enormously when Narendra Modi got elected as the Chief Minister in 2002 and appointed him (Shah) as his junior minister to man the sensitive home department.
In 2007 when Modi got elected for the second term, most of the minsters lost their jobs or got a different assignment but Shah managed to keep his job.
Shah's last tryst with controversy was in 2005 when he was accused by the state CID of accepting a bribe of Rs 2.5 crore in the Madhavpura Mercantilee Cooperative scam.
Then in 2009 when CBI started investigating the Sohrabuddin encounter case Shah's name figured in the phone records which show that he was in regular touch with the police officials arrested for Sohrabuddin's murder.
So what will Modi do now? Will he stand by his protege in the biggest crisis of his career?
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