 He had served as Treasurer of the Bharatiya Janata Party.Shah was chairman emeritus of Mukand Steel, a steel and engineering company in Mumbai, where he held the position of managing director for 27 years from 1972 to 1999.Viren J Shah was born in a middle-class family at Chittpore Road, Calcutta (now Kolkata) on 12 May 1926, as son of Jeewanlal Motichand Shah and Jayaben.