BJP president Amit Shah with his wife offering prayers at Jagannathji Temple in Ahmedabad. (PTI Photo)

AHMEDABAD: Old-timers swear they hadn’t seen such a galaxy of ‘A’ listers from politics and bureaucracy at one place ever in the Gujarat capital, as they did on the occasion of BJP’s newly appointed president Amit Shah’s son’s engagement ceremony on Sunday. Jay Shah, 24, got engaged to his college mate Hrishita Patel, 24, daughter of a Ghatlodia-based builder Gunwant Patel.Shah’s meteoric rise through the BJP’s ranks was amply visible in the size and profile of the people who arrived for the ceremony, from party stalwarts LK Advani and Arun Jaitley to industrialist Gautam Adani, and from former party president Rajnath Singh to first time Union minister Smriti Irani.Since late afternoon, all roads led to a private club on the Sarkhej-Gandhinagar highway, also called the SG Highway in the western part of the metropolis – dotted with premium clubs and known as Gujarat capital’s premium business district. While the entire Gujarat cabinet from chief minister Anandiben Patel down was present, a number of Union ministers too graced the occasion, to say nothing about the corporate heads from across the country as well as retired bureaucrats.Union ministers Uma Bharati, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Venkaiah Naidu and Prakash Javdekar, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, and VK Singh were present, as also party seniors like Ananth Kumar, V Satish, Thawar Chand Gehlot, Om Mathur, Kalraj Mishra, Kalyan Singh and Balbir Punj. Senior Sangh Parivar leaders and social and religious leaders were also seen at the venue, but no senior Congress leader could be spotted.Prime Minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to be part of the ceremony but could not make it owing to his Brazil tour for BRICS summit. Shah’s son Jay, one of the three joint secretaries of the Gujarat Cricket Association, is expected to play a larger role in the game’s administration, sources said, now that his father will take charge as BJP president.More than 1,000 policemen were deployed for bandobast and commute of VIPs who trooped down on Ahmedabad since Saturday night and Sunday morning.