Prime Minister Narendra Modi led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a super-sized victory for a second term in office, as his message of nationalism, security, Hindu pride, and a New India was wholeheartedly embraced by voters across large swathes of the country. With the BJP surpassing its own 2014 tally and registering another thumping majority, now reports have surfaced saying that there is a possibility of BJP president Amit Shah being inducted into the Union Cabinet.
According to Deccan Chronicle, sources from the RSS have said that the Sangh Parivar is in favour of Amit Shah continuing as the party president for his exceptional organisational skills due to which the organisation and its support base grew significantly. The report further states that speculation is rife that Amit Shah could either get the finance or the home portfolio, any decision will be taken only after the RSS top brass and Modi take a final decision.
The BJP got an absolute majority bagging 303 seats. With the elections establishing the 68-year-old Modi as the most popular leader in decades, the BJP and its allies in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) are poised to clinch around 350 seats as against their previous 336. Such was the force of the BJP wave that even Congress President Rahul Gandhi lost in his bastion of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh to Smriti Irani, but in consolation prize won the Wayanad seat in Kerala. Former prime minister and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda also bit the dust when he lost the Tumkur seat in Karnataka where the BJP bagged 25 of the 28 seats. After Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, Modi is the third prime minister of the country and the first non-Congress one — who has been able to retain power for a second term with full majority in Lok Sabha.