Amit Shah

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He became MLA from Sarkhej in 4 consecutive elections: 1997, 1998, 2002 and 2007.He had worked as a stockbroker and also in the co-operative banks of Ahmedabad.He met Narendra Modi for the first time in 1982 in the Ahmedabad RSS circles.In 2002, when Narendra Modi formed the government in Gujarat, he was given charge of several major portfolios including Home, Parliamentary Affairs, and Law and Justice.He has been the president of the Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank (ADCB) in 2000.He loves chess, and he was also the president of the Gujarat Chess Association.In 1986, he joined BJP, one year before Narendra Modi had joined the party.He managed the election campaigns of Lal Krishna Advani in 1991, Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1996, and Narendra Modi in 2014.His son, Jay Shah is an engineer from Nirma University and is the joint secretary of the Gujarat Chess Association.In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, he broke L. K. Advanis victory margin record from the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha Constituency of Gujarat after defeating the rival Congress Candidate CJ Chavda by a margin of 5,57,014 votes. In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Advani had won this seat with a margin of 4, 83, 121 votes.