At a glance: Amit Shah “ 'Man Friday' of Narendra Modi

New Delhi: In politics, very rarely one politician trusts another beyond a point. In case of Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, it is said that there is one man who he trusts more than himself. And his name is –Amit Shah. Amit Shah was home minister in Modi cabinet from 2003 to 2010. He had to resign in 2010 after he was arrested in Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. Presently, he is out of jail on bail. In November 2005, a small time history sheeter, Sohrabuddin, and his wife Kauser Bi were allegedly abducted by the Gujarat's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) from Hyderabad and killed in a fake encounter near Gandhinagar in November 2005. Amit Shah was the state's home minister and the CBI alleges that it was under his instructions that the state's top cops acted. Mr Shah was arrested by the CBI on July 25, 2010 and was granted bail in October. But he also had to quit the Modi government. Ami Shah is implicated in another case - Tulsi Prajapati murder case. The CBI says Tulsi Prajapati was a witness in the Sohrabuddin case and that his killing was part of a larger conspiracy in which Mr Shah, as the then head of the state administration, was involved. Amit Shah's name has also cropped up in the ‘Gujarat snoopgate'. In this case, Amit Shah is alleged to have ordered the surveillance of a woman on the instructions of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Immediately after Narendra Modi was made the chairman of BJP's central election management committee at Goa meet, Amit Shah was made the state in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, the most crucial state for BJP's 2014 scheme of things. It is believed that Narendra Modi got Amit Shah appointed the in-charge of UP because he knows that his dream of occupying 10, Janpath can't materialize unless BJP performs spectacularly in UP which has 80 Lok Sabha seats. Amit Shah's father Anilchandra Shah was wealthy businessman. Amit Shah holds a bachelor's degree in Bio-chemistry . Amit Shah was a swayamsevak of RSS and was also a member of ABVP. Shah worked as a stock-broker for some time during which period he joined the BJP and came close to the party patriarch L K Advani. Amit Shah managed several of Advani's election campaigns of Gandhinagar. Amit was the youngest chairman of the Gujarat State Finance Corporation Ltd. Amit Shah was also appointed as the chairman of Ahmedabad Cooperation Bank. In 2003, BJP won a second term in Gujarat and Amit Shah was inducted as the youngest minister in Modi cabinet. Very soon, Amit Shah emerged as the right hand man of Modi. And today, Amit Shah is considered as the alter ego of BJP's prime ministerial candidate.