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.
Read MoreAs 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.
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.
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.
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 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".
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.
Mizoram MP K Vanlalvena said the current international boundary with the neighbouring country was arbitrarily demarcated by the British without proper ground survey.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 will lead a crucial meeting to appoint a new Election Commissioner, succeeding Anup Chandra Pandey, whose term ends on February 15.
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.
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 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.
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.
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