All set to take oath as Member of Parliament after winning the Rajya Sabha poll from his home-State Gujarat, the 53-year-old BJP president Amit Shah resigned as MlA on Wednesday.
Accompanied by Gujarat Chief Minster Vijay Rupani, Deputy CM Nitin Patel and other senior leaders of Gujarat BJP, Shah tendered his resignation to Gujarat Assembly Speaker Ramanlal Vora on the second and last day of Monsoon Session of the State legislative Assembly.
The close aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi started his political career as worker of Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in 1983. He joined BJP in 1986 and went on to become president of the party’s youth wing – Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM).
He first time entered in the State legislative Assembly in 1997 by winning by-election of Sarkhej constituency. He retained the seat in three consecutive assembly polls in 1998, 2002 and 2007. In 2012 he changed his constituency and won from Naranpura constituency. From 2002, he held dozens of Ministries including that of Minister of State for Home in successive Narendra Modi Governments.
Shah succeeded Union Minister for Home Rajnath Singh as president of BJP in 2014, has completed three years at the helm. He is expected to be inducted in the BJP led NDA Government at the Centre as Cabinet Minister any point of time.
Meanwhile, during his last speech as an MlA in the house he trained his guns on opposition Congress party claiming that Congress party never wanted to complete Narmada dam project. The project could complete only after Narendra Modi became Prime Minister in May 2014, he stated. Soon after resigning as MlA, he addressed BJP workers at the party’s state headquarter ‘Shri Kamalam’ and told them to work hard to win 150 assembly seats out of 182 in the upcoming assembly polls.