Amit Shah and Home Minister

shah: Contribute to the Scroll Reporting Fund The Big Story Don't call it a comeback Is Amit Shah back Of course, India's Home Minister and former president of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party was never really gone, according to Rabble. Yet there was a period this year where he seemed somewhat absent, in stark contrast to the previous months. To get it in your inbox, sign up here . You can help support this newsletter and all the work we do at Scroll.in either by subscribing to Scroll or by contributing any amount you prefer to the Scroll.in Reporting Fund. Ever since the BJP was re-elected in 2019 with a huge national mandate, Shah had been taking a much larger role compared to his stature during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first term. We even asked, on this newsletter, whether Amit Shah was grabbing the spotlight from Modi because, as another theory suggested, this seemed to be an extremely rare case of succession planning in an Indian political party. It was Shah who steered the monumental, controversial changes to the autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir, introduced the law criminalising instant divorce in Islam and traveled around the country promising that a National Register of Citizens would be instituted after the passage of Citizenship Act amendments that are believed by many to be discriminatory. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.