As Twitter and social media trends #HappyBirthdayAmitShah, the BJP president’s image of a no nonsense political operator gets further cemented as none of his political adversaries have been able to match his political wit. But the self-styled Chanakya has a dark side too, whether it is calling his political opponents names – he had once named his political adversaries KASAB during the UP elections – or his infamous remark that undocumented immigrants from Bangladesh were termites that need to be rid of, nearly escalating a diplomatic crisis. Is Amit Shah' s politics here to stay and will it further erode the art of political reconciliation? Is this how things will go down from here on? Will Shah’s style take the BJP to unimaginable heights or will this negative brand of politics hurt the party in the long run ? Abhisar Sharma analyses the Amit Shah phenomenon on his birthday. Click here to support The Wire: https://thewire.in/support