Amit Shah Quotes
My task will remain incomplete until a BJP chief minister is installed in Lucknow.
"Task Incomplete Until BJP Has CM in UP: Amit Shah." The Hindu, The Hindu Group, 4 Feb. 2017.
The President was about to give his State of the Nation address that evening.
After Lincoln was elected, Southerners were threatening secession fearing that his government might try and do what they had promised to do in the campaign—and that meant restricting slavery in the new territories of the nation. The Southern logic was that because the slaves were counted in the census for purposes of apportioning congressmen, the smaller slave states have had an artificial overrepresentation so that the Southern States could block most efforts to limit, regulate, or abolish slavery. However, if all the new territories entered the Union as non slave states, the slave states would lose their parity in Congress. Further, it would be easier to get the states to approve Constitutional Amendments to abolish slavery in the slave states. They saw the slavery issue in the new territories to be the beginning of the end for slavery in the U. S. So they wanted to intimidate the new government into not implementing their campaign promises.
Republican Party primary elections had become very contentious. The radical right and the Tea Party, though a minority of the party, had the power to destroy almost any Republican candidate’s chances. So those Republican political candidates were forced to pander to the extreme right and then try and backtrack to the center for the general election. As a result, few people believed the statements of Republican office seekers as no one knew what they really believed including members of their own party, Bush, no longer running for any political position, found himself with much more credibility and influence in the party than those who were running for office. The problem of appealing to party extremes was not unique to the Republicans at that time, but the degree and extent was unprecedented accounting for the distrust.
Amit Anil Chandra Shah is an Indian politician currently serving as the Minister of Home Affairs. He served as the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2020. He was elected to the lower house of Parliament, Lok Sabha, in the 2019 Indian general elections from Gandhinagar. Earlier, he had been elected as a member of the upper house of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, from Gujarat in 2017. Sworn in at the age of 54, he is the youngest serving full-time Home Minister. He is the chief strategist of the BJP and a close aide to Narendra Modi.
