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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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Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi to appear before court in defamation case tomorrow; 'Nyay Yatra' paused: Jairam Ramesh

India | Feb 19, 2024, 01:36 PM IST

As the legal proceedings unfolded, the temporary halt in the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra underscored the significant legal and political developments surrounding Rahul Gandhi's defamation case.

Home Minister Amit Shah

'INDI alliance' leaders think of making their children PM, CM: Amit Shah at BJP national convention

India | Feb 18, 2024, 03:08 PM IST

A resolution passed in BJP national convention noted that the agriculture budget under the government rose nearly five times to Rs 1.25 lakh crore from what it was during the previous Congress-led UPA dispensation. There was arecord procurement of grains under the minimum support price (MSP) regime.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath

BJP winning 370 seats will be true tribute to Syama Prasad Mukherjee: PM Modi at key BJP meet

India | Feb 17, 2024, 11:59 PM IST

From its elected panchayat heads to district presidents and Union ministers, the BJP's 'national council' meeting is going to be the ruling party's biggest organisational get-together in recent memory -- an exercise aimed at galvanising its cadre for the Lok Sabha polls.

Amit Shah, Karnataka, BJP, BJP JDS alliance, Lok Sabha elections 2024, India

Amit Shah gives ‘winning formula’ to Karnataka BJP to sweep all 28 Lok Sabha seats with ally JDS

Feb 11, 2024, 11:47 PM IST

Karnataka BJP president BY Vijayendra said that all leaders who attended the meeting are confident that if Shah’s plan of action is implemented effectively at the booth level, the BJP and JD(S) can win all Lok Sabha seats in the state.

Siddaramaiah, Karnataka, Amit Shah, BJP, Congress

Siddaramaiah challenges Amit Shah to hold public debate on Karnataka govt’s guarantee schemes

Feb 11, 2024, 08:30 PM IST

Siddaramaiah said that the state's treasury is not empty because of the guarantee schemes of his government but "instead, there is an unfair distribution of taxes from the Centre to the state".

Union Home Minister Amit Shah

Amit Shah to discuss Lok Sabha poll strategy with Karnataka BJP leaders today

Feb 11, 2024, 01:49 PM IST

In the 2019 polls, BJP had won 26 of the total 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka, including Sumalatha Ambareesh, an independent supported by the party from Mandya. The Congress and the JD(S) had secured one seat each.

Amit Shah, Mizoram, india-myanmar border

Mizoram MP urges Amit Shah to reconsider decision to fence India-Myanmar border

Feb 10, 2024, 07:16 PM IST

Mizoram MP K Vanlalvena said the current international boundary with the neighbouring country was arbitrarily demarcated by the British without proper ground survey.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed Lok Sabha on Ram

Fight of 500 years has come to end: Amit Shah amid 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans in Lok Sabha

India | Feb 10, 2024, 03:18 PM IST

After so long, the country got a leadership under Prime Minister Narendra Modi which the world accepts and respects. Amit Shah recalled achievements of the Modi government while addressing Lok Sabha on Ram Temple construction.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah at Parliament House complex

CAA will be implemented before Lok Sabha elections, says Amit Shah

India | Feb 10, 2024, 01:26 PM IST

On the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the Home Minister said the people of the country believed for 500 years that the temple should be built at the place where Lord Ram was born but Congress didn't allow due to politics of appeasement.

APJ Abdul Kalam with MS Swaminathan

Bharat Ratna to Narasimha Rao, Charan Singh: How Amit Shah, BJP reacted

India | Feb 09, 2024, 05:26 PM IST

Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath were among the BJP leaders who hailed the decision and called it a 'befitting tribute.'

Security personnel at the site after a group of protestors

Haldwani: Six dead, several injured as illegal madrasa, mosque demolition triggers violence

India | Feb 09, 2024, 11:38 PM IST

Most of the people hospitalised after the violence at Malik ka Bagicha in the city's Banbhoolpura area were police personnel. The remaining were municipal workers involved in the demolition of the local madrasa and a mosque in its complex, they said.

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What is India-Myanmar Free Movement Regime or FMR? Know history, security concerns

Feb 08, 2024, 07:53 PM IST

The Free Movement Regime (FMR) allowed citizens residing close to both sides of the border to move 16 km into each other's territory without passport or visa.

Home Minister Amit Shah

Free Movement Regime between India and Myanmar scrapped, tweets Amit Shah

India | Feb 08, 2024, 12:55 PM IST

Myanmar is one of India's strategic neighbours and it shares a 1,640-kilometre border with a number of northeastern states, including militancy-hit Nagaland and Manipur. India, recently, called for a cessation of fighting between Myanmar's military and the anti-junta groups near the border.

Chandrababu Naidu and Amit Shah

Chandrababu Naidu meets Amit Shah, JP Nadda, TDP-BJP alliance likely ahead of Lok Sabha elections

India | Feb 08, 2024, 08:22 AM IST

BJP and TDP were allies till 2018 and they fought the Lok Sabha 2014 elections together. But, after the split of Andhra, things went wrong between BJP and TDP. Also, assembly polls will be held along with the parliamentary elections in the state.

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'I will now stay with NDA forever', says Bihar CM Nitish Kumar after meeting PM Modi, Shah | VIDEO

India | Feb 07, 2024, 10:30 PM IST

Nitish Kumar in Delhi: This was the first visit of the Janata Dal (United) supremo after he dumped the Mahagathbandhan and the I.N.D.I.A bloc to form a new government with the support of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar.

PM Modi

PM Modi to lead meet on Election Commissioner appointment with Amit Shah, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

India | Feb 07, 2024, 01:59 PM IST

PM Modi will lead a crucial meeting to appoint a new Election Commissioner, succeeding Anup Chandra Pandey, whose term ends on February 15.

Chandrababu Naidu, TDP, Amit Shah, PM Modi

Chandrababu Naidu likely to meet Amit Shah today: Is TDP-BJP alliance on cards?

India | Feb 07, 2024, 02:07 PM IST

Chandrababu Naidu is a former ally of the BJP. He broke ties with the NDA in 2019 ahead of the Lok Sabha Elections as Andhra Pradesh was not given the 'special category' status. However, speculations are once again rife that the TDP may return to the NDA fold before the general elections.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah at the Parliament House

Govt to fence entire 1643-km long Indo-Myanmar border, says Amit Shah

India | Feb 06, 2024, 07:48 PM IST

The move could virtually put an end to the Free Movement Regime (FMR) prevalent along the porous border. The FMR allows people residing close to the India-Myanmar border to venture 16 km into each other's territory without any document.

Amit Shah, criminal laws, new criminal laws, Indian criminal justice system, Parliament

India's criminal justice system will become most modern in world: Amit Shah hails new criminal laws

India | Feb 04, 2024, 06:53 PM IST

Amit Shah stressed that the judiciary will also have to change with the changing scenario today and underlined that India's criminal justice system will be the most modern in the world as the three criminal laws are completely implemented.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Lal Krishna Advani

'Move to honour decades of his service to nation': Politicians welcome Bharat Ratna for LK Advani

India | Feb 03, 2024, 05:43 PM IST

The Bharat Ratna will be bestowed on Advani in a year of the Ram temple's consecration, which marks a triumphant closure for the BJP of an issue which was thrust into popular consciousness by the veteran leader through his 'Ram Rath Yatra' in 1990.