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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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Ravi Shastri likens BJP’s UP win to ‘Tracer Bullet’, PM Modi returns favour

Politics | Mar 17, 2017, 02:53 PM IST

Ravi Shastri on Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah for the BJP’s landslide victory in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

File pic of PM Narendra Modi during a road show in Varanasi

Will governing UP be as comfortable as winning it? Key challenges the incoming BJP govt faces in Uttar Pradesh

Politics | Mar 17, 2017, 01:45 PM IST

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may have conquered Uttar Pradesh with two-thirds majority, but the challenges that will fall in its path of governance will indeed make things difficult for its leaders to deliver.

File pic of PM Narendra Modi

Thankful to party leaders for refraining from making controversial remarks: PM Modi

Politics | Mar 16, 2017, 01:23 PM IST

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Board met here today to felicitate Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah for the historic win it registered in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

Former Congress leader SM Krishna to join BJP this week

Former Congress leader SM Krishna to join BJP this week

Politics | Mar 14, 2017, 06:59 AM IST

Former Congress leader and Chief Minister of Karnataka SM Krishna is set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) this week.

BJP President Amit Shah to decide UP, Uttarakhand CMs after

Amit Shah to decide UP, U'khand CMs after observers' report

Politics | Mar 13, 2017, 02:07 PM IST

BJP President Amit Shah has been authorised by the party's Parliamentary Board to pick chief ministerial nominees for Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Manipur after central observers hold meetings with local MLAs.

Manohar Parrikar to be new Goa Chief Minister, says Nitin

Manohar Parrikar to be new Goa Chief Minister, says Nitin Gadkari

Politics | Mar 12, 2017, 08:52 PM IST

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was selected this morning by the party's legislators in Goa as their choice for Chief Minister. “Parrikar will be the next chief minister of Goa," said Union minister Nitin Gadkari. Bharatiya

PM Modi addresses supporters at BJP headquarters

This is the beginning of a new India, says PM Modi

Politics | Mar 12, 2017, 08:50 PM IST

To celebrate the BJP’s massive win in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will shortly conduct a road show in Delhi. The one kilometre road show will conclude at the party headquarters in

Amit Shah addresses media in New Delhi

‘Illegal’ slaughter houses, law and order: BJP's priorities after UP win

Politics | Mar 11, 2017, 08:37 PM IST

In Uttar Pradesh, Shah said that the first decision of the government will be to impose a complete ban on illegal slaughter houses and strengthening the law and order situation.

BJP has secured historic win in Uttarakhand and UP

Assembly elections results: Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah thank people for BJP's win in UP, Uttarakhand

Politics | Mar 11, 2017, 02:11 PM IST

Rajnath Singh and BJP president Amit Shah today thanked the people of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand for the party's historic victory in the two states and attributed the win to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership.

Amit Shah

BJP chief Amit Shah asks party cadres to be active on social media

Politics | Mar 10, 2017, 09:07 AM IST

Underlining the need for Baharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers to reach out to people using modern communication tools, party President Amit Shah on Thursday asked BJP workers to remain active on social media.

PM Modi, Amit Shah offer prayers at Somnath Temple

PM Modi, Amit Shah offer prayers at Somnath Temple

Politics | Mar 08, 2017, 12:05 PM IST

Accompanied by BJP president Amit Shah and Chairman of Somnath Temple Trust Keshubhai Patel, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today visited the historic Somnath Temple in Gujarat’s Gir-Somnath district.

Amit Shah

BJP deliberately decided against projecting CM face for UP polls: Amit Shah

Politics | Mar 07, 2017, 12:56 PM IST

Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah today said that the party’s decision not to project any chief ministerial face for the UP Assembly elections was deliberate.

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Pentagon accuses Iranian vessels of harassing US Navy ship

World | Mar 07, 2017, 12:57 PM IST

The Pentagon has accused Iranian vessels of coming dangerously close to a US Navy surveillance ship in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend.

Akhilesh Yadav made UP No.1 in murder and loot, Amit Shah

Akhilesh Yadav made UP No.1 in murder and loot: BJP President Amit Shah

Politics | Mar 07, 2017, 01:11 PM IST

BJP president Amit Shah today accused Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav of transforming the state into the number one state in terms of murder, loot and crime against women.

Amit Shah speaks at an election rally in UP

‘Why force Rahul on UP if he is yet to mature’: Amit Shah’s swipe at Sheila Dikshit’s remark on Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Mar 02, 2017, 04:17 PM IST

At an election rally in Azamgarh, Shah referred to Dikshit’s comments and said that the ‘entire nation agreed with this fact'.

Akhilesh responds to Amit Shah's 'KASAB' barb

'KA for BJP kabutars', to be set free after polls: Akhilesh responds to Amit Shah's 'KASAB' barb

Politics | Feb 24, 2017, 05:54 PM IST

Hitting back at Amit Shah for his KASAB barb, Akhilesh Yadav today said the language of BJP leaders has changed as KA actually stood for kabutar and the people will set their pigeons free in the polls.

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No bigger ‘Kasab’ in India than BJP chief Amit Shah, says Mayawati

Politics | Feb 24, 2017, 05:55 PM IST

Launching a scathing attack on Amit Shah for his ‘Kasab’ remark, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati today said that the BJP chief was the ‘biggest terrorist’ in India.

BJP President Amit Shah addressing during an election

KASAB: After SCAM, BJP coins another fancy acronym for Congress, SP and BSP

Politics | Feb 23, 2017, 06:45 AM IST

BJP President Amit Shah on Wednesday said the people of Uttar Pradesh should get rid of KASAB, in reference to the Congress, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party.

Amit Shah held road show on the last day of campaigning in

UP polls: Campaigning for fourth phase ends; Rahul-Akhilesh, Shah hold road shows on last day

Politics | Feb 21, 2017, 10:24 PM IST

High voltage campaigning in elections for 53 assembly seats from 12 districts of Uttar Pradesh ended on Tuesday evening.

PM Modi and Amit Shah

UP polls: SP minister stokes controversy by calling PM Modi, Amit Shah ‘terrorists’

Politics | Feb 20, 2017, 06:38 PM IST

Samajwadi Party minister in UP government, Rajendra Chaudhary , today created a controversy by calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah “terrorists”.

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