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Amit Shah scores another bulls eye after Lok Sabha Elections

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The decision to go solo by the BJP was proved right on Sunday as it emerged as the single largest party in the assembly elections. The unprecedented success of the party has much to do with the man who had scored a bullseye in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha elections – BJP's national president and Modi's trusted confidant Amit Shah.

From just 46 seats in its kitty in 2009, the BJP managed to push its tally to 122 this time. Amit Shah said the vote share of his party increased from 14% to 27.7% in Maharashtra though the numbers didn't exactly match his expectations.

Sources said Shah sat with state leaders and meticulously planned BJP's strategy for the polls. He deployed a senior Union minister in every district, and an independent team from outside Maharashtra was provided to assist each of the minister in-charge.

The teams studied in detail the constituencies assigned to them so that they could provide constant feedback as to where a candidate was trailing. Based on this information, the minister in-charge would instruct the candidate to work on weak links, said the sources.

For instance, a leader said, "In Pune, when Amitbhai called for a meeting at 1 am, he wanted to know who was the Congress face. When he was told that it was city unit president Abhay Chhajed, Shah wanted loads of information on Chhajed, including his caste and sub-caste. Within 30 hours, a team comprising stalwarts from Chhajed's community arrived from Vadodara and carried out a door-to-door campaign." It not only ensured BJP candidate Madhuri Misal's victory, but also with a huge of margin of about 70,000 votes, said the leader.

Another leader from Vidarbha said that despite the fact that his victory was a foregone conclusion, Shah asked him to suggest measures to increase BJP's vote share by 3.5% in the entire district, that too in two days. He said if the local functionaries failed to come up with a solution, Shah had alternative arrangements. "By hook or by crook, the target was achieved."

It was Shah's plan to carpet-bomb the state with 300 rallies by 53 BJP central leaders in just two days. A journalist in Western Maharashtra summed this up: "The central leaders were in our city as if they were flowing with tap water." It was Shah who insisted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 27 rallies in the last nine days which proved worthy.

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