Power duo: Of Narendra Modi Amit Shah's unbeatable electoral machine and wins
Together, they have built an unbeatable electoral machine that has delivered six states to them this year, from the spectacular victory in Uttar Pradesh to Gujarat and Himachal towards the yearend.
Narendra Modi, 66; Amit Shah, 53
When Amit Shah was jailed as a co accused in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case in July 2010, it was as though a bolt of lightning had struck Narendra Modi. People who would go to visit the Gujarat chief minister at his home or office during Shah's three month imprisonment would see a man not quite himself. It seemed as if Modi had lost a limb. Reports of a Congress plot to entice Shah into turning approver and implicating Modi swirled about. A frantic CM consulted his advisers on ways to get Shah out of jail. Shah, in turn, relayed messages of reassurance from jail. He would never do anything to harm Modi, whatever
