After 10 years, role reversal of P Chidambaram and Amit Shah

In June 2010, the Congress-led UPA-II was in power at the Centre and Chidambaram was the Union home minister.

Investigating agency CBI had alleged that the then Gujarat home minister Amit Shah was evading arrest in the encounter case of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. Shiekh was a criminal, who had several pending cases against him, and had been killed in police custody in an alleged encounter in 2005. 

After lying low, in 2010, Shah made a dramatic entry at the State BJP headquarters for a press conference where he claimed innocence and political vendetta against him. He slammed the Congress and the CBI and called all charges against him “fabricated”.