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Amit Shah

Amit Shah

DOB: 22/10/1964

Amit Shah is the senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has been the Union Home Minister since 2019. He has also been serving as the Union Minister of Co-operation since 2021. Shah was the president of the BJP from 2014 to 2020. He has been a Lok Sabha member from the Gandhinagar constituency of Gujarat since 2019. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Shah won the Gandhinagar seat by defeating Congress candidate Dr CJ Chavda with a margin of 5,57,014 votes. He was the Minister of State for Home, Law and Justice, Prison, Border Security, Civil Defence, Excise, Home Guards, Transport, Prohibition, Gram Rakshak Dal, Police Housing, Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs in Gujarat in the Narendra Modi-led government from 2002 to 2012. Shah won the Sarkhej Assembly constituency in Gujarat in 1997 (bypoll), 1998, 2002 and 2007. He also represented the Naranpura Assembly seat from 2012 to 2017. Shah also served as the Rajya Sabha member from 2017 to 2019. Amit Shah is again contesting from the Gandhinagar constituency in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2024.

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Simbhaoli Sugars bank fraud case: Amarinder Singh claims

Simbhaoli Sugars bank fraud case: Amarinder Singh claims charges against son-in-law 'unsubstantiated'

Politics | Feb 26, 2018, 11:26 PM IST

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today flayed "attempts to politicise" the Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) case with "unsubstantiated" charges against his son-in-law.

Amit Shah attacks Congress after CBI books Punjab CM's

Amit Shah attacks Congress after CBI books Punjab CM's son-in-law in Simbhaoli Sugars bank fraud case

Politics | Feb 26, 2018, 11:27 PM IST

Simbhaoli Sugars Limited is one of the largest sugar mills in the country. Gurpal Singh is the son-in-law of the Punjab chief minister.

Karnataka polls: Amit Shah asks party cadre to ensure

Karnataka polls: Amit Shah asks party cadre to ensure Modi's victory march continues

Feb 21, 2018, 10:22 PM IST

BJP President Amit Shah today said there was public anger against the ruling Congress in Karnataka and asked party workers to make sure that the victory march of Narendra Modi enters the South through the state.

PM Modi, Amit Shah to review public welfare schemes with

PM Modi, Amit Shah to review public welfare schemes with BJP CMs, deputy CMs on Feb 28

Politics | Feb 21, 2018, 09:07 AM IST

Modi and Shah have held regular deliberations with the chief ministers and deputy chief ministers of the party on their overall governance.

File pic of BJP president Amit Shah

Gujarat local poll results proof of people's unbreakable faith in BJP, says Amit Shah

Politics | Feb 20, 2018, 08:28 AM IST

The Congress had run the BJP close in the assembly polls, which were held in December, wining 77 seats against its 99 -- eight more than halfway mark of 91.

PM Modi to inaugurate new BJP headquarters on Sunday

PM Modi to inaugurate new BJP headquarters on Sunday

Politics | Feb 17, 2018, 10:21 PM IST

A host of Union ministers and former party presidents like LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi are likely to be present during the inauguration ceremony.

BJP President Amit Shah addresses a rally during a campaign

Amit Shah accuses Meghalaya Congress leaders of pocketing funds meant for development

India | Feb 16, 2018, 08:28 PM IST

Amit Shah also accused the Congress leaders here of pocketing money meant for the poor for which they constructed bungalows and bought fancy cars.

Gave corruption-free government in Haryana, will do 'sabka

Gave corruption-free government in Haryana, will do 'sabka vikas': Amit Shah in Jind

Politics | Feb 15, 2018, 04:47 PM IST

Addressing the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) 'Yuva Hunkar Rally' at Pandu Pindara village in Jind district, Shah said the BJP's governance model was to ensure equal development for all.

Amit Shah's Yuva Hunkar Rally today, one lakh motorcycles expected to participate

Amit Shah's Yuva Hunkar Rally in Jind today, one lakh motorcycles expected to participate

Politics | Feb 15, 2018, 11:31 AM IST

Police and security forces have been put on alert to prevent any untoward incident taking place during the rally.

File picture of Amit Shah

Amit Shah exudes confidence of forming government in Tripura, says promises in election manifesto will be fulfiled

India | Feb 12, 2018, 03:40 PM IST

Shah assured the voters that the promises made in the party's election manifesto released yesterday would be implemented.

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Delhi HC sets aside order on Arun Jaitley's cross-examination by Arvind Kejriwal

India | Feb 09, 2018, 02:06 PM IST

Justice Manmohan declared the Joint Registrar's order as infructuous and transferred the case to another bench of a single judge, who will hear the matter on February 12.

Amit Shah

Rahul Gandhi's style of politics undemocratic, says Amit Shah

Politics | Feb 09, 2018, 01:56 PM IST

Praising Union Budget 2018, Amit Shah said it was meant to benefit the farmers and the middle class.

Amit Shah making his maiden speech in Rajya Sabha.

'Selling pakodas better than begging': Amit Shah attacks Congress in maiden Rajya Sabha speech

Politics | Feb 05, 2018, 07:14 PM IST

"Today if a person is earning livelihood by selling pakodas, tomorrow his son would become a big industrialist. A tea vendor's son became the Prime Minister of this country," Shah said.

BJP president Amit Shah makes maiden speech in Rajya Sabha

Budget Session : BJP president Amit Shah attacks Congress, counts Modi govt's achievements in his first Rajya Sabha speech

India | Feb 05, 2018, 07:33 PM IST

In Rajya Sabha, BJP president Amit Shah made his maiden speech wherein he thanked President for his speech in joint session of Parliament on Feb 1 and attacked Congress.

Instigating communal tension is Amit Shah's 'standard',

Instigating communal tension is Amit Shah's 'standard', says Siddaramaiah

Politics | Feb 04, 2018, 07:22 PM IST

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today attacked BJP chief Amit Shah, alleging that instigating communal tension was his "standard".

Karnataka Assembly elections: PM Modi to close BJP's Nava Nirman Parivarthan yatra with a massive ra

Karnataka polls: PM Modi to address massive rally in Bengaluru today

Elections | Feb 04, 2018, 11:55 AM IST

The BJP conducted the yatra in poll-bound Karnataka for 90 days crisscrossing nearly all the 224 constituencies.

File pic of BJP president Amit Shah

India Union Budget 2018: Budget will give wings to aspirations of poor, says Amit Shah

Budget | Feb 01, 2018, 08:12 PM IST

Addressing reporters later, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President said the announcements will take development to the poor.

'Congress hasn't forgotten its Emergency mindset': Amit

Will hunt down killers of RSS workers' even if they are in 'pataal': Amit Shah in Karnataka

Politics | Jan 25, 2018, 11:01 PM IST

Amit Shah said that the Congress hasn't forgotten its Emergency mindset and challenged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to stop the BJP from forming government in Karnataka.

Shiv Sena asks PM Modi, Amit Shah to clarify Pravin

Shiv Sena asks PM Modi, Amit Shah to clarify Pravin Togadia's claims

Politics | Jan 18, 2018, 02:57 PM IST

The Shiv Sena today latched on to VHP leader Pravin Togadia's claim of a plot to kill him to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah.

PM Modi ranks third in global leaders survey, pips Donald

PM Modi ranks third in global leaders survey, pips Donald Trump, China’s Xi Jinping in popularity

India | Jan 12, 2018, 11:31 AM IST

The top spot in the survey went to French president Emmanuel Macron with a net score of 21 followed by German chancellor Angela Merkel with a net score of 20.

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