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Has Amit Shah moved from being an asset to a liability in the Modi regime?

A loss of the famed Midas Touch was evident in the electoral defeats in party bastions such as Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Jharkhand

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The BJP has lost five states since December 2018. Jharkhand and Maharashtra are the latest, suggesting the narrative on nationalism has diminishing electoral returns

Bharat Bhushan
The coming Delhi Assembly elections may give us a signal where exactly Union Home Minister Amit Shah now stands within the Narendra Modi regime. Should his picture appear in election posters along with those of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and newly-minted party president, JP Nadda, it would underline his position as number two in the government. If his picture goes missing from the election posters, however, it can be surmised that he has been brought down a peg or two.  

Not too long ago, Amit Shah could do no wrong. Defying psephologists and astounding critics, he won even the most
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