Shah's 93,000-km journey helped BJP win 71 seats in UP: Book

After being appointed BJP's Uttar Pradesh unit in-charge in May 2013, party president Amit Shah travelled 93,000 km over the year in the state and visited 52 districts, a new book on his political journey claims.

This massive exercise resulted in the BJP winning 71 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections compared to 10 in 2009, the book says.

'Amit Shah aur Bhajapa ki Yatra' (The journey of Amit Shah and BJP) is written by Anirban Ganguly and Shiwanand Dwivedi of the BJP-affiliated think tank Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation and published by Bloomsbury India.