Wishing Union Home Minister @AmitShah a very happy birthday. Had Sardar Patel been alive today he would patted him on his back for having made Bharat safer by smashing the Maoist movement, playing key role in removal of A370 from J&K & busting terror modules. I have seen him taking on Indian Mujhahideen terrorists in 2008 as Gujarat Home Minister after the Ahmedabad serial blasts, a case which the Gujarat police under him not only solved in record 21 days but found clues to many other IM blasts other across the country in that frightful period. Eventually this freed the country ( Except J&K) from the curse of bomb blasts. The 2008 Batla House encounter too happened after clues provided by Gujarat Police. In the indian system when a man remains part of the ruling establishment for a long time, his good work gets obscured in public memory & his smallest mistake gets magnified. Amitbhai falls in this category. As a journaliat I have shared a unique relationship with him over the past almost 3 decades. I can call him my friend. But while standing by him when he was hounded by anti-Hindu UPA Govt in 2010, I have maintained an overall balance while reporting on him. My open support to him when he was being hounded was embedded in my nation-first value system. Amitbhai was being targeted by Cong at the behest of radical Muslim leadership in the country. And i believe radical Muslim leadership running Bharat’s system through political proxies is unacceptable, when India gave Pakistan to Indian Muslims in 1947 on their demand. He was a victim of this political malaise. Our best moment together was in 2016 when we spent touching moments in Veer Savarkar’s cell in Andaman’s Cellular jails where Savarkar suffered inhuman torture for Maa Bharati for almost 10 years. BJP’s leaders @blsanthosh , @dpradhanbjp @Ramlal @tarunchughbjp were also present on the occasion Veer Savarkar is inspirer of us both. And I must say Amitbhai has done a great job of implementing Savarkar’s national security vision.