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Jay Shah is an Indian engineer and business executive, who is famous for being the son of Amit Shah, the Home Minister of India. Jay Shah holds the post of secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and also, he is the president of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC).
Wiki/Biography
Jay Shah was born on Friday, 2 September 1988 (age 34 years; as of 2022) in Gujarat, India. His zodiac sign is Virgo. His full name is Jay Amit Shah. Jay, a qualified engineer, holds a B.Tech degree from Nirma University, Ahmedabad.
Physical Appearance
Height (approx): 5′ 6″
Hair Color: Black
Eye Colour: Black
Family
Parents & Siblings
Jay Shah is the only son of Amit Shah and Sonal Shah.
Jay Shah’s parents
Wife & Children
Jay Shah got married to Hrishita Patel on 15 February 2015.
From left: Sonal Shah (Jay’s mother), Hrishita Patel (Jay’s wife), Jay Shah, Narendra Modi, and Amit Shah at Jay Shah’s wedding
Hrishita is the daughter of a Gujarati businessman, Gunwant Patel, and is said to be Jay’s childhood friend. Jay and Hrishita are parents to two daughters: Rudri (born in 2017) and another born in May 2020.
Jay Shah with his wife and elder daughter, Rudri
Career
Business
After completing his formal education, Jay Shah joined his family business of PVC pipelines. Then, in 2004, Jay Shah started his own trading business company under the name ‘Temple Enterprises Pvt Ltd.’ Jay Shah and Jitendra Shah, an old family friend, were the two directors of the firm. The company shut its operations in October 2016. Jay Shah holds a 60 per cent stake in Kusum Finserve, a stock trading and marketing consultancy company.
Cricket Administration
Jay was appointed as an executive member of the Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) in 2009 and was elevated to the position of joint secretary of GCA in 2013. The biggest project that he oversaw during his tenure as the GCA Joint Secretory was the construction of the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
Jay Shah hitting a ball in the nets of GCA Indoor Academy in Ahmedabad
In 2015, junior Shah made a debut in BCCI administration as a member of the finance and marketing committees of the board. In September 2019, he abdicated from the position of GCA joint secretary and was elected as the secretary of BCCI in the next month. He was the youngest person ever to have held the post.
Jay Shah (left), Sourav Ganguly, (centre), and BBCI Treasurer Arun Dhumal (right) standing for a picture during a BCCI press conference in Mumbai
He has been representing BCCI in CEC meetings of the International Cricket Council since December 2019. In January 2021, Jay Shah was appointed as the president of the Asian Cricket Council. He was the youngest person to have acquired the position of ACC president.
Controversy
On 8 October 2017, The Wire, an Indian online news portal, published a story titled ‘The Golden Touch of Jay Amit Shah,’ allegedly reporting massive revenue growth of Jay Shah’s businesses a year after the arrival of BJP in power at the centre. In the story, published by an investigative reporter, Rohini Singh, serious corruption allegations were made against Jay Shah, along with supporting data that showed exponential growth and financial irregularities related to his company. The investigative article reported that in the financial year 2014-15, a company (Temple Enterprise; closed in 2016) owned by Jay Shah registered a profit of Rs. 18,728 on revenues of only Rs. 50,000 before jumping to an overwhelming turnover of Rs. 80.5 crore in the financial year 2015-16, a surge of 16000 times. The various revelations made in the article raised a political storm, with the opposition party demanding a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the matter. In response to the story, Jay Shah filed a Rs. 100 crore defamation criminal suit in the Ahmedabad Court against seven respondents, including the author of the article, and editors of the online news portal. The case was lodged under IPC sections 500 (defamation), 109 (abetment), 39 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt), and 120 B (criminal conspiracy). The case is still pending in the trial court.
Facts/Trivia
- Jay Shah took professional cricket training for a brief period under former Gujarat cricket team coach Jayendra Sehgal at Loyola Hall. Jayendra described Jay Shah as a decent batsman.
- The BCCI Honorary Secretary Jay Shah announced on 27 October 2022 that Indian women cricketers would be paid the same amount as their male counterparts, and that both men and women cricketers would be paid Rs. 15 lakh for Tests, Rs. 6 lakh for one-day internationals, and Rs. 3 lakh for Twenty20 internationals. He said,
Pay equity was my commitment to our women cricketers and I thank the apex council for their support.”