India, May 10 -- In the West Bengal Assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has emerged as the second most important leader in the country after Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Described as the modern version of Chanakya, Shah is, undoubtedly, a strategist par excellence, and someone who knows how to work at the micro-level and produce results.

The determination with which Shah accomplished the impossible Mission Bengal, puts him ahead of every other contender in his party.

The charge against the Centre and the Election Commission by the outgoing Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee in the state is that the election had been stolen, but it may take years to establish any wrongdoing, if at all there was such a thing.

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