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Power pair: How Modi-Shah are different from Nehru-Patel or Vajpayee-Advani

Modi-Shah share a unique power equation unlike Nehru-Patel and Vajpayee-Advani. After Delhi defeat, Shah enters a new, unfamiliar phase of his political career

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, arrive to pay tributes to former prime minister A B Vajpayee on his 95th birth anniversary at his memorial, Sadaiv Atal,, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019 | Photo: PTI

Shekhar Gupta

7 min read Last Updated : Feb 15 2020 | 10:59 AM IST

What do we make of the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah BJP government, now that the latter has finally moved away from his control of the party? He had done so a few weeks earlier, formally handing charge to his successor J P Nadda, but the Delhi election was still the pending item on his agenda. How does the road ahead look?

This, the Modi-Shah government, is the third such in our 73-year independent history yet — governments led by the power of two. A pair of leaders with comparable stature working closely together. Of course, there are others which had just

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Topics : Amit Shah Narendra Modi Jagat Prakash Nadda Jawaharlal Nehru sardar vallabhbhai patel BJP

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