Hailed as the “Chanakya” of present day Indian Politics, Amit Shah, as the president of ruling BJP, meticulously crafted the handsome return of the Modi regime, has now been charted into the government.

Now with him in the government, Shah is all set to combine his astute political mind with his delivery skills to help his mentor Prime Minister Narendra Modi in implementing his governance agenda in the next five years.It is broadly understood that Shah’s induction signals that he will now play a crucial role in the government and would remain eyes and ears of the Prime Minister in the government.

However, given the sequence in which the members of the council of ministers took oath, Rajnath Singh appeared to have retained officially the number two position in the government.

For all practical purposes, Shah has been the party’s second most powerful leader after Modi since he became its president in 2014 after the BJP-led NDA assumed power.

Shah made his debut in Lok Sabha with a massive win from Gandhinagar, a seat earlier represented by BJP veteran L K Advani.

Shah was a crucial aide to Modi during his near 13-year-old reign as Gujarat chief minister between 2001 and 2014, holding the powerful home portfolio.

Though his organisational skills are much-storied since he delivered 71 of 80 Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh in 2014, prompting Modi to call him “man of the match” of the BJP’s win in that general election. Many in the party say he was instrumental in executing a slew of welfare policies of the party’s government in Gujarat.