GOING UP THE LADDER

Even though Amit Shah has no clear favourites or bugbears, certain team members have registered more on the cadre’s radar than the others. These are:

ANIL JAIN:

A surgeon who came close to the RSS-BJP when he was at Delhi's Apollo hospital, is Shah's crisis manager in trouble-prone Haryana

BHUPENDRA YADAV:

The soft-spoken lawyer and Rajya Sabha MP is Shah's eyes and ears

OM MATHUR & SUNIL BANSAL:

Monitor Yogi Adityanath's government. Bansal is the go-to man for Luck now's bureaucrats

ARUN SINGH:

Keeps vigil over the BJP headquarters for Shah