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| Amit Shah, the man assigned |
| Amit Shah, the man assigned to deliver Uttar Pradesh for Narendra Modi
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| INDIA
, 3-March-2014
3:50:3 AM |
| Amit Shah is charged with three counts of murder. He is also a key election campaign manager and close aide of Narendra Modi, the BJP's candidate for prime minister.
To supporters, Mr Shah's proven talent in winning elections makes him the obvious choice to run Mr Modi's campaign in Uttar Pradesh, a swing state that holds the key to national power.
But critics say Mr Modi's ties to Mr Shah are proof of a dark side to the Hindu nationalist leader who is storming ahead in opinion polls.
"This man faces criminal charges. But if Modi wins, he could be one of India's most powerful politicians," said Mukul Sinha, a lawyer representing relatives of victims in the cases against Mr Shah, commenting on his appointment as campaign manager for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh.
A stocky, bearded figure and son of a well-to-do businessman, Mr Shah, 50, was Home Minister of Gujarat for seven years before his 2010 arrest and subsequent release on bail.
Mr Shah denies charges that he ordered the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, a petty criminal who was shot dead by the Gujarat police in 2005. The police alleged that he was a terrorist who planned to assassinate Mr Modi. Officers snatched Mr Sheikh from a bus with his wife, then allegedly staged a gunbattle. Mr Sheikh was killed and his wife's cremated body was found in the village of one of the policemen. A witness traveling with them on the bus was killed later.
The CBI, assigned to investigate the case,
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