will be a real test of his political maturity every cm needs a different approach a senior bjp leader said that with chauhan the issue is his fraught relationship with modi and therefore the expectation is that shah will clip chauhans wings but can he afford to do that with raje the olive branch has already been offered and bjp insiders say accepted the rajasthan cm was upset at her states low representation in the union cabinet some bjp leaders say raje and modishah had tense talks during the last round of rs polls from rajasthan but shah his aides say has reached out to raje and had a long meeting with her in july some of the differences have been resolved the aide said the most closely watched shahcm relationship will be the one with gujarats cm anandiben patel bjp leaders say shahs big ambition was to become gujarat cm and that in modis gujarat shah and patel shared a difficult working relationship they competed for modis attention and in some ways thats still true a gujarat bjp leader said state bjp insiders say the two have declared truce now because neither can afford a fight patel was a prominent presence at shahs sons engagement ceremony but this is a relationship thats potentially full of tension one national bjp leader saidthose shah trusts given his working style there are few bjp leaders shah is really close to professionally that short list includes jp nadda bhupendra yadav dharmendra pradhan ram lal national security advisor ajit doval and most prominently arun jaitley shah and jaitley had the biggest inputs in creating the modi cabinet bjp insider say the two supported each other shahs advocacy of mukul rohatgi a close friend of jaitley convinced modi to appoint the lawyer as attorney general a bjp leader said this close relationship was cemented by jaitleys constant advocacy of shahs case in bjp when the latter wasnt as powerful as now jaitely had tried to help shah several times when cbi started pursuing him in the sohrabuddin fake encounter case one party leader said officials say jaitley had put forward his arguments for shah with the cbi brass when the agency had started looking at shah in the encounter cases bjp was in opposition then officials say shah and cbi chief ranjit singh share a rapport jaitley would always speak for shah in party forums the bjp leader quoted earlier said that help and the fact that both are part of an even shorter list of people modi consults means the shahjaitley relationship is one of the most crucial one to watch in bjps term in powermodi shah future as president shah is emerging as a power centre that rajnath wasnt says a top bjp office bearer how does that affect a modishah relationship thats probably the defining question for bjp the pm and the party chief has had a bossclose aide relationship going back years shahs role is many of modis successes