NEW DELHI: For a politician running on a platform of clean government, having a key aide facing murder and extortion charges could be seen as a liability—but not by the man tipped to be India’s next prime minister.

Narendra Modi, the hardline Hindu nationalist leading the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) into elections this week, first met former stockbroker Amit Shah in the 1980s when both of them were volunteers.

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