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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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ABVP win in DU JNU shows youth's support for Modi: Amit Shah

Politics | Sep 13, 2015, 06:11 PM IST

New Delhi:  BJP chief Amit Shah today said the ABVP's clean sweep in Delhi University Student Union polls showed nationwide "approval" of the Modi government's policies among the youth, claiming that institutions like DU and

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Bihar Assembly polls: Decision on seat-sharing today

India | Sep 13, 2015, 10:48 AM IST

Bihar Assembly polls: Decision on seat-sharing todayNew Delhi:  Ahead of the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls, former state chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi met Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah on Saturday over discusions related to

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BJP, NSUI congratulate ABVP on wining DUSU polls

Politics | Sep 12, 2015, 06:30 PM IST

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders along with NSUI on saturday congratulated the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) for winning all the seats in Delhi University Students' Union elections.BJP national president Amit Shah took

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Bihar polls: BJP may contest 170 seats, announcement today

Politics | Sep 12, 2015, 09:51 AM IST

New Delhi: The suspense over seat sharing between the allies of NDA partners for the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls is likely to end today.The announcement of seats is likely to be made by Bharatiya Janata

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PM has fulfilled OROP promise, Congress played a joke: Amit Shah

Politics | Sep 05, 2015, 10:13 PM IST

New Delhi:  Terming as “historic” the Centre's decision on ‘One Rank, One Pension', BJP today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has fulfilled the commitment he made to ex-servicemen and provided them economic security while Congress

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Congress, BJP spar over OROP

Politics | Sep 05, 2015, 09:58 PM IST

New Delhi:  The OROP announcement today triggered a war of words with the Congress accusing the Modi government of "substantially diluting" its provisions and the BJP hitting back, slamming the opposition party of playing a

amit shah assures early implementation of orop

Amit Shah assures early implementation of OROP

Politics | Sep 04, 2015, 06:08 PM IST

New Delhi:  BJP President Amit Shah today said the government will soon implement 'One Rank, One Pension' scheme even as agitating ex-servicemen threatened to intensify their protest if any unilateral announcement is made which does

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PM Modi may attend key RSS meet starting tomorrow

Politics | Sep 02, 2015, 12:29 AM IST

New Delhi:  For the first time after becoming Prime Minister, Narendra Modi is expected to attend a key RSS meet starting here tomorrow which is likely to brainstorm on a number of contentious issues including

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Bihar polls: BJP to meet allies today to discuss seat sharing

Politics | Aug 31, 2015, 09:42 AM IST

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its Bihar allies will meet today to thrash out a deal over seat-sharing in the state assembly polls amid strident demands being made by parties like LJP

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NDA government dedicated to poor, farmers: Amit Shah

Politics | Aug 31, 2015, 06:56 AM IST

New Delhi: Hailing the Centre's decision to bring 13 laws under the Land Acquisition Act, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called it a "pro-farmer" measure and insisted that its government will work to get the

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PM's Office likely to discuss Posco issue with Odisha govt

India | Aug 25, 2015, 10:30 AM IST

PM's Office likely to discuss Posco issue with Odisha government todayNew Delhi: The Prime Minister's Office is likely to take up the issue of steel giant Posco's proposed $10.5-billion integrated steel plant in Jagatsinghpur with

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Amit Shah trapped in lift for 40 minutes; rescued by CRPF

Politics | Aug 21, 2015, 01:11 PM IST

Patna:  BJP President Amit Shah and three other senior leaders were trapped in the lift of the state guest house here for around 40 minutes, throwing the security and party officials into a tizzy.“The lift

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Progress with Nitish Kumar but Bihar still on lowest rungs

Politics | Aug 19, 2015, 06:29 PM IST

 Bihar has the second-highest economic growth among poor states  It has India's third-highest level of poverty  Unemployment in Bihar is the highest among the poorest states  98% families in rural Bihar do not have access to toilets in

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Parliament ruckus unfortunate, Congress should back GST: Amit Shah

Politics | Aug 12, 2015, 05:42 PM IST

Kolkata: Terming the ongoing logjam in Parliament as ‘unfortunate' BJP national president Amit Shah today said the GST bill had been stalled for political reasons and appealed to Congress to support it for the development

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BJP slams Nitish for remarks against Amit Shah

Politics | Aug 10, 2015, 09:16 AM IST

Patna: The BJP today hit back at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for commenting on its national president Amit Shah's imprisonment in some criminal cases and claimed that Shah had been falsely implicated by the

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Will go to people with work, not 'jumlas': Nitish Kumar

Politics | Aug 08, 2015, 01:25 AM IST

Patna:  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said he will seek the people's mandate on the basis of his work and not by using "jumlas" (euphemism) like the BJP, in an apparent dig at BJP

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Amit Shah to meet functionaries from South; 5 other events of the day

India | Aug 06, 2015, 10:07 AM IST

1. Amit Shah to meet functionaries from SouthChennai: BJP National president, Amit Shah, will today visit Madurai on for an interaction with grass root level functionaries of the party's southern district units.2. Rahat Fateh Ali

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BJP unleasing RSS terror in Kerala: CPI(M)

Politics | Aug 05, 2015, 06:43 AM IST

Kochi: Countering charges of BJP president Amit Shah that CPI (M) used violence against his party workers to curb the spread of their ideology, the Left party claimed the situation was the other way around and

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Congress MPs to stage dharna in Parliament Complex; 9 other major events of the day

India | Aug 04, 2015, 10:11 AM IST

1. Congress MPs to stage dharna in Parliament ComplexNew Delhi: Congress MPs will today stage a dharna in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament Complex to protest against the suspension. Members of other

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Kalam, best exemplar of the idea of India: BJP

Politics | Jul 28, 2015, 10:05 AM IST

New Delhi: Calling it a nation's "loss of a visionary", BJP today paid glowing tributes to former President A P J Abdul Kalam with party chief Amit Shahdescribing him as the "best exemplar" of the

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