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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In his address during BJP's national executive meeting in Hyderabad, PM Modi said that many parties which have ruled the country for years are on decline and asked the party leader to learn from their mistakes.
In his address at the BJP national executive meeting while proposing political resolution, Union Home Minister Amit Shah called for ending the politics of dynasty, casteism and appeasement and cited the party's win in a string of recent polls as an endorsement of its "politics of development and performance".
Over 300 leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, chief ministers and deputy chief ministers of 14 NDA-ruled states are present at the high level policy meeting.
In an exclusive interview with ANI, Shah touched on various aspects of the dastardly Gujarat Riots which claimed thousands of lives.
Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari, BJP president J P Nadda and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, besides Modi, were part of the deliberations at the party headquarters.
The meeting with Naidu is significant as the BJP parliamentary board is meeting later on Tuesday to discuss the BJP-led NDA's choices for the new president.
Earlier today, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held a meeting at his residence with the tri-service chiefs and discussed the rollout of the scheme and ways to pacify agitators. This is the second such meeting called by Rajnath Singh in two days.
The petitioner had later filed a review petition, which was also dismissed by the high court on June 10 and imposed a cost of Rs 500 on him.
Home Minister Amit Shah talked about rural development while addressing the 41st convocation ceremony of the Institute of Rural Management (IRMA) in Gujarat.
He addressed a public meeting in presence of State Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi, Union Territory (Daman and Diu) administrator Praful Patel and State Revenue Minister Rajendra Trivedi.
BJP MP Saumitra Khan alleged that the state government has "failed" to maintain law and order in the trouble-torn areas and "allowed the violence to spiral for vested political interests".
Union Home Minister Amit Shah stated that history is not written on the basis of victory or defeat but on the basis of the outcome of any event at a book launch in New Delhi.
Avinash Das is the director of 2017 film "Anaarkali Of Aarah" starring Swara Bhaskar, Sanjay Mishra and Pankaj Tripathi. He was booked for allegedly sharing a picture of Union Home Minister Amit Shah with IAS officer Pooja Singhal, who was recently arrested by ED in a money laundering case.
Six Congress leaders joined Bharatiya Janata Party during Union Home Minister Amit Shah's Chandigarh visit on Saturday. Ahead of his visit, a video surfaced on social media, that showed four senior Congress leaders and former ministers with BJP leader Sunil Jakhar, fuelling speculation that they were to join the saffron party.
Keeping in mind the upcoming commonwealth games, the event will have as many as 25 types of sports and will be organised across 5 venues including anchkula, Ambala, Shahabad, Chandigarh, and Delhi
Targeted killings have become a new tactic in Kashmir where the Modi government has given the security forces a free hand in taking the strongest action against those indulging in terror-related activities.
The program aims to highlight the roots of the land of culture, heritage, architectural magnificence and unsung heroes of India's youngest state, which is celebrating its 8th anniversary this year.
Akshay Kumar's Samrat Prithviraj will release in theatres on June 3. The film also stars Manushi Chhillar and Sonu Sood. It will mark Manushi's acting debut in Bollywood. Home Minster Amit Shah attended the special screening of the film in Lucknow.
In the last meeting on June 17, the home minister had advocated pro-active and coordinated counter-terror operations and had asked security forces to ensure zero cross-border infiltration and wipe out terrorism from the union territory.
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