The Amit Shah you didn’t know Amit Shah’s appointment as BJP president for a full term has been partly because of PM Narendra Modi and largely because of the strong support he has from the RSS, writes Sheela Bhatt who has tracked his career, his politics, from Gujarat to Delhi Veteran BJP LK advani with Amit Shah in this file photo. Advani skipped Sunday’s event where Shah was re-elected party president. Express Photo/Prem Nath Pandey In the long run, Amit Shah’s focus will not just be the development agenda of the Modi government. He will turn to identity politics of the BJP — Hindutva will drive its politics. Shah is not going to be flexible on this issue. Modi has already indicated that the fundamentals of the RSS-BJP remain unchanged. And the RSS believes that the BJP has to clearly align itself in the battle between nationalists and the “pseudo-secularists”. Fourteen years younger to the Prime Minister, the 51-year-old is Modi’s “bad cop”. Both speak the same