India, Jan. 11 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah has firmly established himself as the principal decision-maker within the Bharatiya Janata Party, centralising key organisational and administrative choices after securing firm backing from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to internal inputs from senior party functionaries.

The complete consolidation has become visible through a series of recent signalling events in Madhya Pradesh and Haryana, where the central leadership moved decisively to end speculation over the political future of incumbent chief ministers. In Madhya Pradesh, CM Mohan Yadav, who had been facing persistent rumours of removal, received an emphatic endorsement when Shah publicly praised his performance and made it ...