Amit Shah is the new home minister
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and newly inducted minister of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Cabinet, Amit Shah, has been allocated the Ministry of Home Affairs, a press communique from the Rashtrapati Bhawan said.
The incumbent BJP chief, often called 'Chanakya' due to his political understanding and histrionics, took oath as a Cabinet minister at 7 pm on Thursday.
Amit Shah, in his decade-long political career, had never held a Cabinet portfolio and always chose to work from the background and strengthen the saffron party.
Amit Shah, along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has often been accredited for revamping the BJP. Under the duo, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) beat the Congress party -- not once, but twice.
