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Amit Shah
Amitabh Anilchandra Shah[2] (born 22 October 1964) is
Amit Shah
an Indian politician and the current Minister of Home Affairs
who has been President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
since 2014. He was elected to the lower House of Parliament
the Lok Sabha in the 2019 Indian general election from
Gandhinagar. He was earlier elected as a member of the upper
House of Parliament the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat in 2017. He
also became the youngest serving full-time Home Minister at
an age of 54.[2] He is the chief strategist of the BJP and a close
aide to Narendra Modi.[3][4]

During his college days Shah was a member of ABVP, student

wing of the RSS. At the age of 18, he secured a position in the
ABVP, and joined the BJP in 1987. Shah was first elected in
Gujarat as the MLA for a seat partly covering Ahmedabad,
Sarkhej in 1997 (a by-election) holding it in 1998, 2002 and Minister of Home Affairs
2007 until the seat's 2008 dissolution, then for nearby Incumbent
Naranpura, from 2012-2017. He is a close associate of Prime Assumed office
Minister Narendra Modi and held executive portfolios in the 30 May 2019
state government during Modi's tenure as its Chief Minister. Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Preceded by Rajnath Singh
Shah was the BJP's in-charge for India's largest and politically
most crucial state, Uttar Pradesh, during the 2014 Lok Sabha Chairperson of the National
Democratic Alliance
elections. The BJP and its allies swept the state, registering
Incumbent
their best performance, by winning 73 out of 80 seats. As a
result, Shah rose to national prominence and was appointed as Assumed office
the party's national president in July 2014.[5] 9 July 2014
Preceded by L. K. Advani
He has played an organising and membership-promotional
President of the Bharatiya Janata
role in elections of many states since 2014. In his initial two Party
years, the BJP achieved success in Legislative Assembly Incumbent
elections in Maharashtra, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir,
Assumed office
Jharkhand in 2014 and in Assam but lost ground in Delhi and
9 July 2014
the large eastern state of Bihar in 2015.
Preceded by Rajnath Singh
He was in 2017 partly credited with the party landslides in Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and the party's modern heartland Incumbent
state of Gujarat[6] in which year was marked the party's strong Assumed office
debut in much smaller Manipur, but the Akali-BJP alliance lost 23 May 2019
power in considerably larger Punjab.[7] In 2018 the party lost
Preceded by L. K. Advani
power in the states of Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya
Pradesh. The next year, BJP won 303 seats to get majority in Constituency Gandhinagar
the 2019 Indian general election, making Shah the most Majority 8,94,624 (69.6%)
successful BJP President ever.[8] Member of Parliament, Rajya
Sabha

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Contents In office
19 August 2017 – 29 May 2019
Early life Preceded by Dilip Pandya
Early political career Succeeded by Subrahmanyam
Gujarat's minister Jaishankar
Controversies Constituency Gujarat
Police encounter cases Member of the Gujarat Legislative
Arrest and exile Assembly
Other controversies In office
Snoopgate 2012–2017

Rise in national politics Preceded by Kaushik Patel

Uttar Pradesh general elections Constituency Naranpura
BJP President In office
Home minister 1997–2012

Electoral record Preceded by Harishchandra

Lavjibhai Patel
Personal life
Constituency Sarkhej
References
Home Minister of Gujarat
External links
In office
2002–2014

Early life Personal details

Born Amit Anilchandra
Shah was born in Mumbai on 22 October 1964.[9] He came Shah
from a well-to-do Gujarati Hindu family who were 22 October 1964[1]
Baniyas.[10][11][12] His great grandfather was the Nagarseth of Mumbai,
the small state of Mansa.[13] His father Anil Chandra Shah, a Maharashtra, India
businessman from Mansa, owned a successful PVC pipe
Political party Bharatiya Janata
business.[14] He did his schooling in Mehsana and moved to
Party
Ahmedabad to study biochemistry at CU Shah Science College.
He graduated with a B.Sc. degree in biochemistry, and then Spouse(s) Sonal Shah
worked for his father's business.[14] He also worked as a Children Jay Shah
stockbroker and in co-operative banks in Ahmedabad.[15] Alma mater Gujarat University
(BSc)
Shah was involved with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
since childhood, participating in the neighbourhood shakhas Website www.amitshah.co
(branches) as a boy. He formally became an RSS .in (http://www.amit
swayamsevak (volunteer) during his college days in shah.co.in)
Ahmedabad.[10] He first met Narendra Modi in 1982 through
Ahmedabad RSS circles.[10] At that time, Modi was an RSS pracharak (propagator), working as in-
charge of youth activities in city.[14]

Early political career

Shah started his political career as a leader of the student wing of the RSS, the Akhil Bharatiya
Vidyarthi Parishad, in 1983.[10][16] He joined BJP in 1987, one year before Modi joined the
party.[14] He became an activist of BJP's youth wing Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) in
1987. He then gradually rose in the BJYM hierarchy, holding various posts including that of ward

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secretary, taluka secretary, state secretary, vice-president, and general secretary.[10] He came into
limelight for his excellent management when he was the election campaign manager for Lal
Krishna Advani in Gandhinagar during the 1991 Lok Sabha elections.[1][17]

In 1995, BJP formed its first government in Gujarat, with Keshubhai Patel as the Chief Minister. At
that time, BJP's main rival Indian National Congress was highly influential in rural Gujarat. Modi
and Shah worked together to decimate Congress in the rural areas. Their strategy was to find the
second most influential leader in every village, and get him or her to join BJP. They created a
network of 8,000 influential rural leaders who had lost elections to the pradhan (village chief) post
in various villages.[10]

Modi and Shah used the same strategy to reduce Congress' influence over the state's powerful co-
operatives, which play an important role in the state's economy. In 1999, Shah was elected as the
president of Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank (ADCB), the biggest cooperative bank in India.
In Gujarat, such elections had traditionally been won on the caste considerations, and the co-
operative banks had traditionally been controlled by Patels, Gaderias and Kshatriyas. Despite not
belonging to any of these castes, Shah won the election. At that time, the bank was on the verge of
collapsing, having accumulated losses of ₹ 36 crore. Shah turned around the bank's fortune within
a year's time: the next year, the bank registered a profit of ₹ 27 crore. By 2014, the bank's profit
had increased to around ₹ 250 crore.[10] Shah also ensured that 11 of the Bank's 22 directors were
BJP loyalists.[14]

Modi and Shah also sought to reduce the Congress hold over sports bodies in the state.[10] Shah
served as the president of Gujarat State Chess Association.[16] In 2009, he became the vice-
president of the cash-rich Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA), when Narendra Modi served as its
president.[14] In 2014, after Modi became Prime Minister of India, Shah became the president of
GCA.

Modi, who had become a general secretary in the party's state unit by the early 1990s, used his
influence to get bigger roles for Shah. He convinced Patel to appoint Shah as the chairman of the
Gujarat State Financial Corporation, a public sector financial institution which finances small and
medium-scale enterprises. After Shankersinh Vaghela and some other leaders complained about
Modi's growing clout in the Gujarat government, the party leadership moved Modi out of Gujarat,
to the BJP headquarters in Delhi. During this time (1995-2001), Shah served as Modi's informer in
Gujarat.[14]

In 1997, Modi lobbied to get Shah a BJP ticket for the Gujarat Legislative Assembly by-election in
Sarkhej.[18] Shah became an MLA in February 1997 after winning the by-election.[19] He retained
his seat in the 1998 Assembly elections.[20]

Gujarat's minister
In October 2001, BJP replaced Keshubhai Patel with Narendra Modi as the chief minister of
Gujarat, following allegations of inefficient administration. Over the next few years, Modi and Shah
gradually sidelined their political rivals.[14]

Shah contested the 2002 Assembly election from the Sarkhej constituency in Ahmedabad. He won
by the highest margin among all candidates: 158,036 votes. In the 2007 Assembly election, he won
from Sarkhej again, improving his margin of victory.[16]

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During Narendra Modi's twelve-year tenure as the Gujarat CM,

Shah emerged as one of the most powerful leaders in Gujarat.
After winning the 2002 elections, he became the youngest
minister in the Modi government, and was given multiple
portfolios.[1] At one time, he held 12 portfolios: Home, Law
and Justice, Prison, Border Security, Civil Defence, Excise,
Transport, Prohibition, Home Guards, Gram Rakshak Dal,
Police Housing, and Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs.[14]
PM Modi addresses a BJP National
Council Meet
In 2004, the Congress-led Central Government announced its
intention to repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act, calling it
regressive. Shah piloted the Gujarat Control of Organised
Crime (Amendment) Bill through Gujarat state assembly amid an opposition walk-out.[21]

Shah also played an important role in convincing the Narendra Modi government to pass the
Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, which made religious conversions difficult in Hindu-majority
Gujarat. His opponents argued that the Act went against the rights guaranteed by the Indian
Constitution, but Shah defended the bill, calling it a measure against forced conversions. His
efforts in getting the bill passed impressed the senior leadership of RSS.[10]

Controversies

Police encounter cases

In 2010, Shah was accused of having orchestrated the
extrajudicial killings of criminal [22] Sohrabuddin Sheikh, his
wife Kauser Bi and his criminal associate Tulsiram Prajapati.
According to the CBI, Sohrabuddin had been harassing some
marble traders of Rajasthan, by demanding hefty protection
money. CBI claimed that two of these marble traders paid
Shah to eliminate Sohrabuddin. He, along with the police
officers DIG DG Vanzara and SP Rajkumar Pandian, allegedly Amit Shah and Udit Raj
hatched a plan to kill Sohrabuddin. In 2004, DCP Abhay
Chudasama pressured Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram to fire at the
office of two builder brothers - Raman Patel and Dashrath Patel.[23] This was done so that a fresh
criminal case could be registered against Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram. The next year, the police
picked up Sohrabuddin, Kausar Bi and Tulsiram, and took them to a farmhouse near Ahmedabad.
Sohrabuddin was killed in a staged attack, with Vanzara claiming that he was a Lashkar-e-Taiba
operative. Kausar Bi was also killed and cremated for being a witness. Tulsiram was initially let off,
as he was an informer of Vanzara. He was eliminated later, after Sohrabuddin's death was exposed
as an extrajudicial killing by a journalist. CBI claimed that Shah had transferred Vanzara to various
places in order to facilitate these killings.[24][25]

Vanzara and several other officers were arrested in the case. As proof of Shah's involvement in the
crimes, the CBI presented phone call records, which showed that Shah had been in touch with the
accused police officers when the victims were in their illegal custody. It also presented videotapes
of Patel brothers' conversations with two of Shah's associates at Ahmedabad District Cooperative
Bank (ADCB). In the tape, ADCB Director Yashpal Chudasama and its Chairman Ajay Patel can be
seen asking the brothers not to involve Shah's name in the case. Yashpal Chudasama is the brother
of the accused police officer Abhay Chudasama. According to CBI, Abhay used to run an extortion
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racket, with Sohrabuddin as his henchman.[26]

The Patel brothers, who had several criminal cases
against them, also spoke against Shah. They claimed that the police had falsely implicated them
into various cases between 2001-2005 in order to extort money from them. They also claimed that
Vanzara made them talk to Shah over phone, and Shah threatened them into giving a statement
against Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram. They further stated that, in 2006, Ajay Patel and Abhay
Chudasama called them again on behalf of Shah, asking them to give certain statements to CBI.[27]

Shah dismissed all the accusations against him as politically motivated. He pointed out that during
his tenure as the Home Minister, Gujarat was one of the states with minimum number of police
encounters in the country. He stated that he kept in touch with the police officers on the phone in
the normal course of his duties as the home minister.[28] He accused the Congress of misusing CBI,
and claimed that only the encounter cases in Gujarat were being scrutinised when the rest of the
country had witnessed around 1500 encounters during the same period.[29] He said that if CBI had
any solid evidence against him, it would have been able to frame charges against him.[14] In 2010,
Police Commissioner Geeta Johri, who first investigated the case, claimed that CBI was
pressurizing her to falsely implicate Shah in the Sohrabuddin case.[30]

DG Vanzara was also accused in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, but the CBI gave Shah a
clean sheet in the case.[31]

Arrest and exile

Shah was arrested on 25 July 2010 in connection with the Sohrabuddin case. He was charged with
the murder, extortion, and kidnapping among other charges. At one time, Shah was considered as
one of the main contenders for the Gujarat Chief Minister's post. However, his political career was
hurt by the arrest. Many leaders in the Gujarat government distanced themselves from him. His
fellow ministers considered him as an autocratic person, who did not have good relations with his
colleagues.[16]

When Shah applied for bail, the CBI raised concerns that he would use his political power to
prevent justice from taking its course.[14] The Gujarat High Court granted him bail three months
after his arrest, on Friday, 29 October 2010. However, the next day, when the courts were closed,
Justice Aftab Alam took a petition at his residence to bar him from entering Gujarat.[10] Shah was
thus forcibly exiled from the state from 2010 to 2012.[14] He and his wife moved to a room in
Gujarat Bhavan, Delhi.[10] Later, the Supreme Court canceled his bail on a CBI plea. In September
2012, the Supreme Court granted him bail, and allowed him to return to Gujarat. He then
contested and won the 2012 Assembly election from Naranpura constituency (the Sarkhej
constituency had ceased to exist after delimitation).[16]

Other controversies
Shah was accused of sidelining the police officers who testified against the Gujarat government in
cases related to the fake encounters and the 2002 riots. Additional DGP R. B. Sreekumar, who gave
evidence to the Nanavati-Shah commission, was allegedly denied promotion. Rahul Sharma, who
handed over phone records of police officers and politicians to the Commission, was charged with
violating the Official Secrets Act. Additional DGP Kuldeep Sharma alleged that he had been moved
from the police department to Gujarat State Sheep and Wool Development Corporation, after he
accused Shah of taking a bribe of Rs 2.5 crore to bail out a conman who fraudulently withdrew Rs
1,600 crore from the Madhavpura Mercantile Cooperative Bank. Kuldeep Sharma was later made
advisor to the central home ministry by the Congress government. His brother Pradeep Sharma

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was imprisoned in Gujarat from 2010 to 2011 on corruption

charges. The brothers claim that the Gujarat Government was
harassing them.[14] Shah has also been accused of
manipulating the electoral constituency delimitation exercise
in Gujarat to favour BJP.[18]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits

Snoopgate
Shauryanjali, a commemorative
In 2013, Shah was accused of having ordered illegal exhibition on the 1965 war
surveillance on a woman in 2009, during his tenure as a home
minister. The investigative websites Cobrapost and Gulail
released a set of taped audio conversations between Shah and police officer GL Singhal. The tapes
had been submitted to the CBI in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, and were leaked to these
portals. The calls detail how the state machinery was used to surveil the woman and the IAS officer
Pradeep Sharma (who was suspended by the Gujarat Government). Both Singhal and Shah
repeatedly refer to a higher authority as Saheb, believed to be the Chief Minister Narendra
Modi.[32] Shah denied all the accusations against him, calling them political propaganda by his
opponents.[14] BJP's political opponents demanded a probe in this Snoopgate case. However, in
May 2014, the woman approached the Supreme Court and stated that the surveillance on her was
based on a "personal request", and she was thankful to the Gujarat government for ensuring her
safety. She requested the court to block any investigation, stating that it would violate her
privacy.[33]

Rise in national politics

After Narendra Modi became the Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP, Shah's influence also
increased in the party. The two have been accused of sidelining other BJP leaders such as Lal
Krishna Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Murli Manohar Joshi and Jaswant Singh.[14] By this time, Shah
had gained recognition as an excellent election campaign manager, and had been dubbed a
"modern-day Chanakya and master strategist".[34] Shah was appointed as a BJP general secretary,
and was given charge of Uttar Pradesh (UP). He was chosen not by Modi, but by Rajnath Singh,
who had been impressed by the skills that Shah displayed in wresting control of various Congress-
controlled organizations in Gujarat.[10] The decision did not go down well with many in the party,
who saw him as a liability owing to the criminal charges against him. Political analysts such as
Shekhar Gupta termed the decision as a blunder.[35]

Uttar Pradesh general elections

Shah's political career, which had declined after his arrest in 2010, revived after BJP's victory in
the 2014 general election. In UP, where Shah was the in-charge, BJP and its allies won 73 out of 80
seats. Shah had been made in charge of BJP's UP campaigning on 12 June 2013, less than a year
before the elections.[14] Since February 2012, Shah had spent considerable time in UP, trying to
understand the reasons for the Samajwadi Party's winning performance in the 2012 UP Assembly
elections. Shah realised that the voters were dissatisfied with the Samajwadi Party, which he
believed had failed to keep its election promises after the win. He also took advantage of the OBC
voters' displeasure with the UP government's decision to create 4.5% reservation for the minorities
within the 27% OBC quota in government jobs and education.[14]

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Shah personally oversaw the candidate selection, emphasizing on the candidate's local clout and
winning potential as the only criteria for selection, as opposed to the candidate's party loyalty or
ideology. His team estimated that only 35% of the BJP's traditional supporters had actually voted
in the UP elections. Therefore, he focused on door-to-door campaigning at the booth-level. He set
up a 7-to-10 member management committee for each of the 140,000 voting booths in the state.
For each booth, his team collated lists of voters and reached out to them.[14] Shah's team used 450
GPS-enabled mobile vans ("video raths") to reach out to the masses in remote areas, where media
reach was negligible.[36] Shah personally covered 76 out of 80 Lok Sabha constituencies. He also
insisted on Modi contesting election from Varanasi.[37]

Shah convinced Modi to utilize RSS volunteers for grassroots campaigning, which proved highly
beneficial for BJP.[37] Although RSS officially did not get involved in electioneering, Shah used its
volunteers to mobilize and monitor the campaigners. For example, the RSS volunteers would
cross-check a BJP worker's claims of having targeted a given number of households.[14] Shah also
helped organize "mega rallies" for Modi. Like other major political parties, BJP provisioned one
van per village to transport people to the rally venue. However, unlike others, Shah decided that
BJP would not provide money for hiring these vehicles. Instead, he declared that the party workers
organizing the transportation would be made the leaders of the BJP units in their respective
villages. This strategy ensured that a number of local village leaders developed a stake in Modi's
victory.[10]

Critics accused Shah of trying to polarize the UP voters along the religious lines. While visiting
Ayodhya for a meeting with the party's local committee, he raised the Ram Janmabhoomi temple
issue (see Ayodhya dispute). BJP fielded three candidates accused of inciting violence during the
2013 Muzaffarnagar riots. These were seen as attempts to target the party's Hindu nationalist
base.[14] An FIR was registered against Shah for a speech in Muzaffarnagar, where he urged the
voters to seek "revenge" through their votes.[18] He also took advantage of Shia Muslim antipathy
towards Sunni Muslims in Lucknow.[38]

Shah also played an important role in BJP's election campaigning strategy outside Uttar Pradesh.
He focused on building Modi's image as a strong leader. At times, he opposed even Modi on several
strategic campaigning issues. For example, when Modi praised his opponent and prospective post-
poll ally Mamata Banerjee, Shah insisted that BJP must not divert from the "Modi-versus-all"
tactic.[37] Shah was also responsible for forging BJP's alliances with regional parties like Pattali
Makkal Katchi.[18]

BJP President
In July 2014, BJP's Central Parliamentary Board unanimously
approved Shah's appointment as president of the party.[39] He
was reelected BJP President unanimously on 24 January
2016.[40]

After becoming party president, Shah started an aggressive

membership drive and by March 2015 BJP claimed 100 million
members.[41][42]
Modi congratulates Amit Shah as he
becomes BJP President
Under his leadership during 2014-16, BJP achieved success in
Legislative Assembly elections in Maharashtra, Haryana,
Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand and Assam, but lost the elections in Delhi and Bihar.[43]

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Shah also spearheaded campaigning in the 2017 assembly elections, which gave BJP resounding
success in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, meaning the party won its greatest run in percentage
terms in recent state assembly elections: 325 seats out of 403.[44][45] BJP made some headway into
Manipur.[46] Under his stewardship, the BJP has also won 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly polls
for a record six times and wrested power from the INC during the 2017 Himachal Pradesh
Legislative Assembly polls. In March 2018, BJP won first time in the left-ruled northeastern state
of Tripura with a two-thirds majority. BJP also made gains in Nagaland and Meghalaya and
formed government in both states with its allies.

In 2018, Shah said millions of "illegal infiltrators" have entered the country like "termites" and
should be "uprooted": "Should they be thrown out or not? Millions of infiltrators have entered our
country and are eating the country like termites. Should we not uproot them?"[47]

Shah led BJP to victory in the 2019 Indian general election, becoming the most successful BJP
President ever, in the process.[8] During the election campaign, he visited 312 of the 543 Lok Sabha
constituencies, holding 18 road shows, 161 public meetings, and over 1,500 BJP meetings.[48]

He is often referred to as a modern-day Chanakya,[49] who had skillfully replaced the Nanda
dynasty by the young Chandragupta Maurya. He himself is an admirer of Chanakya. Responding to
the questions from a reporter about a portrait of Chanakya at his New Delhi residence in 2016, he
said: "[I admire] Chanakya because he was knowledgeable. His sutras are eternal. Economics,
politics, the problem of governance are all there.” The Bhagavata Purana is another of his favourite
books, which he studied when he was in prison.[13]

Home minister
Shah took oath as Cabinet Minister on 30 May 2019. He took
office as Minister of Home Affairs on 1 June 2019.[50] On 5
August 2019, Shah moved resolution to scrap Article 370 in the
Rajya Sabha.,[51] and also reorganize the state with Jammu
and Kashmir serving as one of the union territory and Ladakh
region separated out as a separate union territory.[52]

On 19 November 2019, Shah declared in the Rajya Sabha of the

Indian parliament that the National Register of Citizens (NRC)
will be implemented throughout the country.[53]

In December 2019, he introduced the Citizenship Amit Shah takes oath with Ram
(Amendment) Act, 2019 bill, which grants Indian citizenship to Vilas Paswan beside him
non-Muslims who migrated to the country illegally before 2015
from the Muslim-majority countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh
and Afghanistan. In North-East India, people concerned about the impact of illegal immigration on
local culture and politics protested against the Act. Elsewhere, the opposition parties criticized the
Act's exclusion of Muslims as detrimental to India's pluralism. Shah, however, insisted that that
the bill was not anti-Muslim because it did not change the existing path to citizenship available for
them.[54]

Electoral record
Since 1989, Shah has fought 28 elections to various local bodies. As of 2019, he has never lost an
election.
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Election Year Constituency Result Votes % Votes Source

Gujarat Legislative Assembly (by-election) 1997 Sarkhej Won 76,839 56.10% [55]

Gujarat Legislative Assembly 1998 Sarkhej Won 193,373 69.81% [20]

Gujarat Legislative Assembly 2002 Sarkhej Won 288,327 66.98% [56]

Gujarat Legislative Assembly 2007 Sarkhej Won 407,659 68.00% [57]

Gujarat Legislative Assembly 2012 Naranpura Won 103,988 69.19% [58]

General Election 2019 Gandhinagar Won 888,210 69.76%

Personal life
Shah is married to Sonal Shah and the couple have a son named Jay. Shah was very close to his
mother, who died from an illness on 8 June 2010.[10][14] People close to Shah have described him
as someone who does not like to socialize much.[59] He has six sisters, two of whom live abroad in
Chicago.[60][13] In September 2019, he was successfully operated for lipoma at the backside of neck
under local anaesthesia. After this minor surgery, he was discharged.[61]

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