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Dilip Patel
Ahmedabad, August 5, 2025
The country’s Home Minister Amit Shah was once the Home Minister of Gujarat when he was arrested by the CBI. Shah was Modi’s strongest ally, but Modi broke ties with Shah. He left Shah’s hand. Shah did not want to meet Modi. When Shah went to the Chief Minister’s office to meet him, he was made to sit for hours. It has been 15 years today.
There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies in politics. Modi and Shah are the best example of this. At one time Modi and Shah became enemies of each other.
On July 16, 2010, the state government organized a Gareeb Mela in Godhra. People living below the poverty line were to be given financial assistance cheques. In the official invitation, Minister of State for Home Affairs Amit Shah was shown as the person handing out cheques. The plan changed at the last moment. Modi distributed the cheques.
The ambitious Raksha Shakti University was also to be inaugurated by Minister of State for Home Affairs Amit Shah. But his name was dropped from the list of dignitaries. The invitation card said that the university would be inaugurated by Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Despite the university being under the state home department, Shah was not included. Modi kept Shah away from the event. But the Chancellor of the university was IPS officer O.P. Mathur, who was being investigated by the CBI in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.
Before Shah was arrested by the CBI in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, Chief Minister Narendra Modi had severed ties with Amit Shah, his partner in all his good and bad deeds.
Modi was adopting a cautious approach by keeping a distance from Amit Shah. He was taking care not to get photographed with Shah.
During the Rath Yatra on July 13, 2010, Shah was sent off early so that Modi could not be photographed with him.
