Jay Shah is an Indian engineer and business executive, best known for being the son of Indian Home Minister Amit Shah. Jay Shah serves as the Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and is also the Chairman of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC).
Wiki/Biography
Jay Shah was born on Friday, September 2, 1988 (34 years old; as of 2022) in Gujarat, India. His star sign is Virgo. His full name is Jay Amit Shah. Jay is a qualified engineer with a Bachelor of Science degree from Nirma University, Ahmedabad.
appearance
Height (approximate): 5′ 6″
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Black
family
Parents and siblings
Jay Shah is the only son of Amit Shah and Sonal Shah.
Jay Shah’s parents
Wife and children
Jay Shah married Hrishita Patel on February 15, 2015.
From left to right: 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 Gujarat businessman Gunwant Patel and is said to be Jay’s childhood friend. Jay and Hrishita have two daughters: Rudri (born in 2017) and another daughter (born in May 2020).
Jay Shah with his wife and eldest daughter Rudri
Profession
Business
After completing his formal education, Jay Shah joined his family’s PVC pipe business. Later, in 2004, Jay Shah started his own trading company by the name of Temple Enterprises Pvt Ltd. Jay Shah and his family’s old friend Jitendra Shah were the two directors of the company. The company was shut down in October 2016. Jay Shah holds 60% stake in Kusum Finserve, a stock trading and marketing consultancy company.
Cricket Administration
Jay was appointed as the executive member of the Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) in 2009 and was elevated to the position of joint secretary of the GCA in 2013. The biggest project he oversaw during his tenure as joint secretary of the GCA was the construction of the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
Jay Shah hits the ball in the nets at GCA Indoor Academy in Ahmedabad
In 2015, Shah Jr. first entered the BCCI management as a member of the board’s finance and marketing committee. In September 2019, he resigned as GCA joint secretary and was elected BCCI secretary the following month. He is the youngest person ever to hold the position.
Jay Shah (left), Sourav Ganguly (centre) and BBCI treasurer Arun Dhumal (right) pose for a photo at the BCCI press conference in Mumbai
He has been representing BCCI at the International Cricket Council’s CEC meetings since December 2019. In January 2021, Jay Shah was appointed as the Chairman of the Asian Cricket Council. He is the youngest person to have been given the post of ACC Chairman.
dispute
On October 8, 2017, the Indian online news portal The Wire published a report titled “The Midas Touch of Jay Amit Shah” which allegedly stated that Jay Shah’s corporate revenues had increased significantly a year after the BJP entered the Indian central government. The report, published by investigative journalist Rohini Singh, made serious corruption allegations against Jay Shah, while providing supporting data showing that his company’s revenues had increased exponentially and there were financial irregularities. The investigative article reported that in the fiscal year 2014-15, one of Jay Shah’s companies (Temple Enterprise, which closed down in 2016) had a profit of Rs 18,728 and revenues of just Rs 50,000, while in the fiscal year 2015-16, the turnover soared to Rs 805 million, a 16,000-fold increase. The various revelations in the article triggered a political storm, with opposition parties demanding that the Supreme Court oversee an investigation into the matter. In response to the report, Jay Shah filed a Rs 100 crore criminal defamation suit in an Ahmedabad court against seven defendants, including the author of the article and the editor of the online news portal. The case was filed under Sections 500 (defamation), 109 (abetment), 39 (intentionally causing grievous hurt) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code. The case is still pending before the trial court.
Facts/Trivia
- Jay Shah had received a short period of professional cricket training from former Gujarat cricket team coach Jayendra Sehgal at Loyola College. Jayendra called Jay Shah a good batsman.
- On October 27, 2022, Jay Shah, honorary secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, announced that the salaries of Indian female cricketers will be the same as those of male cricketers, with both male and female cricketers receiving Rs 1.5 million for Test matches, Rs 600,000 for One-Day Internationals, and Rs 300,000 for Twenty20 Internationals. He said,
Pay equality is my commitment to women cricketers and I thank the Supreme Council for their support.”
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