 There was never a whisper of an accusation, even from rivals in business, that he sought or obtained, during a decade and half of his time as a Central legislator, advantage in furtherance of his business.Standards of probity in public life meant for him standards of rectitude in the way he ran his business as well.While Viren Shah had cordial relations with Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister, for several years in the 1960s, the relationship underwent change as her politics turned increasingly statist.