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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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Assembly polls 2022: BJP's Uttarakhand core group to meet

Assembly polls 2022: BJP's Uttarakhand core group to meet in Delhi today

Elections | Jan 16, 2022, 12:40 PM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttrakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami will be present in the meeting along with the party's National President Jagat Prakash Nadda, State president Madan Kaushik, state election incharge Pralhad Joshi, election co-incharge RP Singh and others.

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UP polls: BJP trying to destroy communal harmony, says Asaduddin Owaisi

Elections | Jan 05, 2022, 12:27 PM IST

Asaduddin Owaisi has accused PM Narendra Modi, Yogi Adityanath and Amit Shah of encouraging people who are spreading hatred in name of religion.

Assembly Election 2022 LIVE Updates

Election 2022: Samajwadi Party MLC from Varanasi joins BJP

Elections | Dec 31, 2021, 07:21 PM IST

Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab will go to polls early in 2022. While the first four are ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the last one has a Congress government.

Assembly Election 2022 LIVE Updates

Assembly Election 2022 Updates: PM Modi inaugurates various developmental projects in Haldwani

Elections | Dec 30, 2021, 11:55 PM IST

Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab will go to polls early in 2022. While the first four are ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the last one has a Congress government.

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Committee to decide on withdrawing of AFSPA in Nagaland: State Govt after meeting Amit Shah

India | Dec 26, 2021, 02:58 PM IST

Union Minister Amit Shah held a meeting to discuss the present scenario in Nagaland on December 23 which was attended by Nagaland CM, Assam CM and other officials.

Only ₹70 cr as compared to UP's ₹2,000 cr: AAP hits

Only ₹70 cr as compared to UP's ₹2,000 cr: AAP hits back after Shah's jibe at Kejriwal

India | Dec 26, 2021, 12:42 PM IST

AAP stated that the Delhi government spends Rs 70 crore on advertisements in a year whereas the Yogi government spends Rs 2,000 crore annually.

Amit Shah takes dig at Kejriwal over media advertisements

Amit Shah takes dig at Kejriwal over media advertisements

India | Dec 25, 2021, 10:14 PM IST

Amit Shah said that it is because of the BJP-ruled three municipal corporations of Delhi that the Modi government has been able to carry out welfare programmes in Delhi.

Congress leader and former Uttarakhand Chief Minister

Assembly Election 2022 Updates: AAP releases 3rd list of 18 candidates for Punjab polls

Elections | Dec 24, 2021, 08:25 PM IST

Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur are due early next year.

CRPF women commandos to guard Amit Shah, Sonia Gandhi,

CRPF women commandos to guard Amit Shah, Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

India | Dec 22, 2021, 07:51 PM IST

CRPF raised its first-ever contingent of 32 women commandos in its VIP security wing and they will now be tasked to guard its protectees, based in Delhi, who receive the top Z+ cover.

The BJP, according to sources, is wary of making any such

Trouble for BJP in UP as Nishads fume over delay in reservation

Elections | Dec 20, 2021, 05:42 PM IST

The Nishads were looking forward to an announcement in this regard by the union Home Minister Amit Shah at the joint BJP-Nishad party rally in Lucknow last week.

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Shah's claim that BJP made it clear Fadnavis will be Maharashtra CM in 2019 far from reality: Raut

India | Dec 20, 2021, 01:42 PM IST

It was the BJP which "ditched" the Shiv Sena in 2014 for a larger share in power, Sanjay Raut claimed while talking to reporters in Delhi.

HM Amit Shah's 2-day Maharashtra visit begins today

Home Minister Amit Shah's 2-day Maharashtra visit begins today, to attend various events

India | Dec 18, 2021, 10:46 AM IST

Today, the home minister is likely to visit the Shirdi temple in Ahmednagar and present the Vithalrao Vikhe Patil literary awards at a function in Loni.

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UP Elections 2022: 'SP, BSP govts protected goons but Adityanath wiped them out', says Amit Shah

Elections | Dec 17, 2021, 10:59 PM IST

Amit Shah also praised PM Modi for laying the foundation stone of Ram Temple in Ayodhya. Soon, the temple will be constructed at the site of Ram Janmabhoomi.

Amarinder Singh meets BJP's Punjab in-charge Gajendra

Elections 2022: Amarinder Singh meets BJP's Punjab in-charge Gajendra Shekhawat in Delhi

Elections | Dec 17, 2021, 11:35 PM IST

Five poll-bound states are Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab. Elections in these states will be held in February-March next year.

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Uttar Pradesh polls 2022: Amit Shah to hold 'Nishad Samaj Jan Sabha' on December 17

Elections | Dec 16, 2021, 09:29 AM IST

Home Minister Amit Shah will also inaugurate the 23 new branches of Uttar Pradesh Cooperative Bank tomorrow.

Nagaland firing: Tribal bodies ask people not to cooperate

Nagaland firing: Tribal bodies ask people not to cooperate with army

India | Dec 15, 2021, 02:45 PM IST

Thirteen of the 14 people killed in three episodes of firing by army personnel on December 4 and 5 belonged to the Konyak tribe, one of the major tribes of Nagaland.

Nagaland killings: Statement made by Home Minister Amit

Nagaland killings: Tribal body demands apology from Shah, retraction of 'misleading' Parl statement

India | Dec 12, 2021, 07:40 AM IST

The union threatened to take their agitation beyond the district and the state if their demand for repeal of AFSPA and justice in the killing was not heeded by the end of the mourning period on December 13.

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Amit Shah lays foundation stone of Umiya Mata Temple in Ahmedabad

India | Dec 11, 2021, 02:24 PM IST

Later in the evening, the Union Minister will also inaugurate various developmental projects including the opening of a railway bridge.Soon after the event, he is expected to return to Delhi.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

Law & order in Manipur tremendously improved under BJP rule: Home Minister Amit Shah

Elections | Dec 09, 2021, 06:49 PM IST

The home minister said if a comparison is made between the development witnessed in the last five years in Manipur and the development in previous 70 years in the state, one can see more progress in the last five years.

Nagaland civilian killings: Case of mistaken identity, says

Nagaland civilian killings: Case of mistaken identity, says Amit Shah in Lok Sabha

India | Dec 06, 2021, 05:10 PM IST

The Home Minister said that the 'Government of India expresses deep regret over the unfortunate incident in Nagaland and also expresses deep sympathies to the bereaved families.

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