Amit Shah is Shahenshah of Gandhinagar!

GANDHINAGAR: Amit Shah's victory in Gandhinagar represents another milestone whizzing past in his vertiginous ascent - from a booth manager who pasted BJP posters to the party's poster boy of Machiavellian election-management genius.
By winning the prestigious Gandhingar Lok Sabha seat with an all-time high victory margin of 5.57 lakh, Shah smashed the earlier record margin of 4.83 lakh set by party patriarch L K Advani in the 2014 general election.This massive victory margin clearly increases his clout further in national politics. Following his LS debut, he is expected to resign as Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat.

Shah did not come to Gandhinagar on Thursday owing to his national responsibilities, but is expected to visit in the next two or three days. Harshad Patel, his polling agent said, "Amitbhai thanked voters and party workers for the thumping victory. He could not come today because of other responsibilities. He will visit Gandhinagar and will organise a public meeting to thank voters and workers."
Despite the responsibility of steering the BJP's national campaign in 437 Lok Sabha seats across the country, Shah invested considerable time canvassing in Gandhinagar. To maximize his outreach, Shah held four roadshows. They passed through territories that had served as the electoral jogging track in his youth and on which he had built his political stamina: Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Sanand, and Kalol. The areas fall within the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat.
Through his campaign, Shah energized supporters by throwing them a dare. A win is not enough, he told them. He said he wanted the victory margin to shove the opposition into oblivion.
The master strategist mobilized votes through targeted meetings with influential people of all sections of society. For instance, he met office-bearers of residential societies. He made them feel part of his mission by urging them to persuade society members themselves to take the BJP's message to their neighbourhoods.
Shah's record draws from a long association with the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha and not just from his crowd-pulling campaigns for the 2019 election. When he began his political career, Shah was put in charge of a booth in Naranpura, part of the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency. He was the campaign manager for L K Advani in all the elections the BJP patriarch contested from Gandhinagar. In fact, on this Lok Sabha seat, Shah tested his famed electoral strategy. In his model, trends and tendencies are minutely monitored right down to booth level.
"I was a booth manager in this area," Shah told his supporters during a roadshow in Ahmedabad. "Only in the BJP can a local worker become party president." The campaigning also augured Shah's rise as the de facto No. 2 in the National Democratic Alliance. Top NDA allies including Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray, Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch Parkash Singh Badal, and Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan were by Shah's side when he filed his nomination papers.
With Advani turning 91, Shah was the unquestioned favourite of the party cadre to contest from Gandhinagar. This sentiment was conveyed to the party leadership by the state parliamentary board.
Fielding Shah from Gandhinagar enthused BJP cadres across the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat. The party's national president contesting from Gandhinagar was akin to Narendra Modi fighting the 2014 general election from Vadodara.
Shah has joined the elite league of BJP stalwarts - Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Advani - who have won Gandhinagar in the past. It is a seat the BJP has not lost for three decades, since 1989. Shah's predecessor Advani represented Gandhinagar for six terms, while former PM Vajpayee was an MP from Gandhinagar for one term.