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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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Shah addressed a gathering of BJP leaders in Jammu

Congress bereft of any ideology, limited to one family's interests: Amit Shah

Politics | Apr 30, 2017, 09:27 AM IST

The Congress bereft of any idealogy as it was formed as part of a mass movement before Independence, BJP President Amit Shah said on Saturday.

Amit Shah visits Mamata's home turf in Kolkata

On 'Mission West Bengal', Amit Shah visits Mamata's home turf

Politics | Apr 26, 2017, 11:30 PM IST

BJP president Amit Shah today visited a slum in Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's home turf in her Bhawanipur assembly constituency and garnered a warm welcome for himself.

File pic of PM Narendra Modi

PM Modi expresses gratitude to Delhiites for MCD poll win

Politics | Apr 26, 2017, 05:53 PM IST

His tweet came as the BJP recorded a significant victory in polls to all the three municipal corporations of Delhi.

Amit Shah addresses media in Kolkata

BJP's win in Delhi civic polls a vote in favour of PM Modi, says Shah

Politics | Apr 26, 2017, 03:25 PM IST

Amit Shah also thanked Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari and the party workers for the win.

Mamata Banerjee's TMC cannot stop Modi's chariot: Amit Shah

Amit Shah launches BJP's Mission West Bengal, says TMC cannot stop Modi's chariot

Politics | Apr 26, 2017, 01:27 AM IST

The Trinamool Congress will not be able to stop Narendra Modi's chariot and the lotus will bloom in West Bengal, BJP president Amit Shah said today.

Former Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely joins BJP

Former Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely joins BJP ahead of MCD polls

Politics | Apr 18, 2017, 05:42 PM IST

Former Delhi Congress chief of the party Arvinder Singh Lovely today joined the BJP.

PM Modi withBJP president Amit Shah at National executive

From panchayats to Parliament: Amit Shah charts BJP's growth plan

Politics | Apr 16, 2017, 11:37 AM IST

In his inaugural address at the BJP's two-day national executive here, Amit Shah said that the party's golden era would arrive when it rules across the country, from panchayats to Parliament.

BJP, MCD Polls, Delhi BJP, Amit Shah

Delhi BJP expels its 21 members, including four councillors

Politics | Apr 15, 2017, 09:20 PM IST

The Delhi BJP today expelled its 21 members, including five sitting councillors, from the party for six years for allegedly being involved in the anti-party activites ahead of the April 23 MCD polls.

Representational pic - BJP’s two-day National Executive

BJP’s two-day National Executive meeting to begin in Bhubaneswar today

Politics | Apr 15, 2017, 10:43 AM IST

Two-day meeting of BJP’s National Executive will begin today in Bhubaneswar with all the party bigwigs, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, joining the deliberations.

Now, BJP to focus on states crucial for its fortunes in 2019

Now, BJP to focus on states crucial for its fortunes in 2019

Politics | Apr 14, 2017, 09:15 PM IST

Having reclaimed power in Uttar Pradesh after 15 years, the BJP will now turn its focus to the states where it has been traditionally weak but which are critical to determine its fortune in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

UP CM, Amit Shah, Narendra Modi, Uttar Pradesh

Adityanath meets Shah, PM Modi, big administerial changes on cards

Politics | Apr 09, 2017, 09:44 PM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today met with BJP President Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi here and are believed to have discussed the state's political and governance issues.

Amit Shah

Amit Shah asks BJP MPs to draw victory chart from ‘Kashmir to Kanyakumari’

Politics | Apr 07, 2017, 07:37 AM IST

Exhorting BJP MPs to work for improving the party’s performance in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday asked them to draw winning chart from "Kashmir to Kanyakumari".

File pic of PM Modi and BJP president Amit Shah

BJP turns 37: A look at the political journey of the world’s largest party

Politics | Apr 06, 2017, 03:46 PM IST

The BJP, the largest political party in the world, was founded on April 6, 1980 with three-time former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at the helm as its president.

Former Samajwadi Party spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia joins BJP

Former Samajwadi Party spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia joins BJP

Politics | Apr 02, 2017, 06:48 PM IST

Former Samajwadi Party spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia, who had quit the party just before the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections today joined the BJP in Delhi.

Was told I will be UP CM only a day before swearing-in,

Was told I will be UP CM only a day before swearing-in, had only two robes: Yogi Adityanath

Politics | Mar 29, 2017, 11:50 PM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aditynath on Wednesday talked said he informed by BJP chief Amit Shah only a day before the swearing-in ceremony.

BJP president Amit Shah

MCD polls: Unfurl the victory flag in Delhi too, Amit Shah to BJP workers

Politics | Mar 25, 2017, 05:23 PM IST

Addressing BJP workers ahead of April 23 polls, Shah referred to party's victories in the recent assembly polls and said that a win the civic elections will help catapult the party to power in the national capital.

UP CM Yogi Adityanath meets PM Modi in New Delhi

UP CM Yogi Adityanath meets PM Modi, Amit Shah; discusses allocation of portfolios

Politics | Mar 21, 2017, 06:35 PM IST

Newly elected Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today met several central leaders in New Delhi including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed several issues related to the state.

Gujarat elections will be a battle of prestige for both

Modi’s ‘Mission 150’ in Gujarat: Can BJP replicate UP win in PM’s home turf?

Politics | Mar 20, 2017, 07:52 PM IST

The BJP is now gearing up for one of its most prestigious electoral battle in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat.

Amit Shah

I will never accept the job of advising Rahul Gandhi, says Amit Shah

Politics | Mar 18, 2017, 01:28 PM IST

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah on Friday said that he will “never accept” the job of advising the Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi.

Yogi Adityanath at a press conference in Lucknow

Yogi Adityanath elected BJP legislature party leader, to be sworn in as CM of UP tomorrow

Politics | Mar 18, 2017, 10:49 PM IST

Newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs in Uttar Pradesh today elected Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adiyanath as their legislature party leader.

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