Published: May 24, 2019, 05:30 IST | Updated: May 24, 2019, 05:30 IST
He combined BJP's core planks of Hindutva and hardcore nationalism with a development narrative and set up a huge ground-level organisational setup to execute it — the BJP's 'Chanakya' Amit Shah blazed such a trail that the 'Modi Wave 2.0' surpassed its own original avatar with a much bigger saffron surge.