Amit Shah re-elected BJP President

“Amit Shah has been unanimously elected as the president of party and will hold the post for the next three years”, Indian home minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh told media.

“He is the most capable person, he has organisational ability, good strategies and above all commitment to our ideology”, said Venkaiah Naidu.

Amit Shah on Sunday was re-elected as BJP president.

In 2009, Shah became the vice-president of the cash-rich Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) and after Modi became Prime Minister of India in 2014, he became the President of GCA.

“This is second term for Amit Bhai Shah”.

“He has been an extremely successful party president”, he said of Amit Shah, a confidant of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Nearly all BJP chief ministers, besides a number of union ministers, were in attendance on Sunday when Shah filed his nomination papers.

His reputation as a strategic organiser took a beating when the Aam Aadmi Party routed the BJP in the Delhi assembly election in February a year ago – the first popularity contest after the Lok Sabha polls.

Veteran BJP leaders such as Lal Krishna Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi were, however, conspicuous by their absence at the election.

PM Modi is hosting a dinner for Shah and his team, including vice presidents, general secretaries and secretaries, tonight.

“The biggest gains came in states like Jharkhand, Sikkim, Andhra Pradesh, Tripura, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Odisha and Jammu & Kashmir”.

The election process is under way at the BJP headquarters.

The announcement of Shah’s unopposed election for the top party post was made at the BJP headquarter in Delhi.