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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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BJP to fight 2019 Lok Sabha polls under PM Modi's leadership, says Amit Shah

Dec 19, 2018, 05:37 PM IST

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah on Wednesday categorically said that the ruling NDA will fight the 2019 Lok Sabha elections under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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India TV Poll | Despite defeat in Assembly elections, can Amit Shah help BJP win 2019 Lok Sabha election?

Dec 19, 2018, 12:35 PM IST

The election results in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh were definitely not favourable for BJP, but it is not right to link them with the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Amit Shah said.

Assembly election results not favourable for BJP, but not

Assembly election results not favourable for BJP, but not right to link them with 2019 Lok Sabha polls: Amit Shah

Elections | Dec 19, 2018, 11:16 AM IST

His remarks come as the BJP suffered a massive jolt in the three key states, while Congress managed to make a stunning entry.

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2019 Lok Sabha polls: Amit Shah to give booth management formula to incharges of Delhi party's unit on December 23

Dec 18, 2018, 12:22 PM IST

It is for the first time that a state-level interaction between the national president and the booth incharges is being organised. 

1984 anti-Sikh riots case

Those responsible enjoyed political patronage of Congress leadership: Amit Shah on 1984 anti-Sikh riots case

India | Dec 18, 2018, 10:41 AM IST

Thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for setting up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) in 2015, the BJP chief started re-investigation into several cases of 1984 pending for over three decades.

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'Fight 2019 election like a war, no alliance can stop BJP from realising its agenda of development': Amit Shah

Dec 16, 2018, 11:53 PM IST

Addressing the concluding session of the two-day workshop of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, he said the party will lose the battle of ideology if they lose 2019 election.

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Rahul Gandhi must apologize on Rafale jet issue: BJP chief Amit Shah

Politics | Dec 14, 2018, 10:24 PM IST

Addressing a press conference after the Supreme Court dismissed the petitions seeking a probe into the deal, he said truth had triumphed and Gandhi's "lies" had no legs to stand on.

Rath Yatra

BJP leaders meet Bengal government officials, say ‘will stick to planned route for Rath Yatra programme’

India | Dec 14, 2018, 08:19 AM IST

The state government at the meeting was represented by Chief Secretary Malay De, Home Secretary Atri Bhattacharya and Director-General of Police Virendra. 

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BJP loses vote share big time, but not all to Congress

Elections | Dec 11, 2018, 09:48 PM IST

The vote share loss is even bigger for the saffron party since the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, in which it had virtually swept all the three states by winning 62 out of 65 seats, as per the Election Commission data.

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BJP chief Amit Shah vows to take out Bengal Rath Yatra 'democratically'

India | Dec 07, 2018, 06:34 PM IST

Meanwhile, the Calcutta High Court on Friday directed top West Bengal officials to hold meeting with the BJP by Dec 12 and take a decision on granting permission to the rath yatra by Dec 14.

Amit Shah said no one can stop BJP from going ahead with

War over Rath Yatra intensifies, Amit Shah says Mamata govt trying to suppress democracy in Bengal

India | Dec 07, 2018, 03:20 PM IST

Amit Shah said the Bengal government has no intention to control infiltration due to its appeasement policy.

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Restoration of Somnath temple's glory by covering it in gold answer to desecration in past: Amit Shah

India | Dec 06, 2018, 08:49 PM IST

    Shah, who's a trustee of Shree Somnath Trust, made the remarks after laying the foundation stone for a tourist walkway along the nearby coast.

Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) chief Upendra Kushwaha

Upendra Kushwaha declares 'war' on BJP, stops short of announcing split with NDA

India | Dec 06, 2018, 08:15 PM IST

  To a question whether a meeting with Congress president Rahul Gandhi was on the cards, he said "I need nobody's permission to meet anyone".

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Amit Shah Rath Yatra: CJ of Calcutta HC asks BJP to move appeal today

India | Dec 07, 2018, 01:29 AM IST

According to BJP lawyer Phiroze Edulji, chief justice, while refusing a hearing on Thursday evening itself, asked the BJP lawyers to move the appeal before the court on Friday morning.

Rath Yatra in West Bengal

Setback to BJP as Calcutta HC denies permission for Amit Shah’s Rath Yatra, next hearing on Jan 9

India | Dec 06, 2018, 05:28 PM IST

The Bharatiya Janata Party had moved the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday, saying it was yet to be given permission for taking out three rallies in West Bengal, scheduled to begin from December 7.

Mizoram Assembly Election 2018

Mizoram Polls | MNF dismisses BJP’s prediction of being in power for next 50 years; says ‘Amit Shah isn’t God’

Dec 06, 2018, 01:24 PM IST

The saffron party will win the 2019 elections because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's hard work and then no one can dethrone it for the next 50 years, Shah had said at the party’s National Executive meet in September.

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Rajasthan Polls: Electioneering ends in state, polling on Dec 7

Dec 05, 2018, 08:22 PM IST

“Electioneering ended at 5 pm today. Polling will take place from 8 am to 5 pm on December 7 in 199 constituencies,” Rajasthan’s chief electoral officer Anand Kumar said.

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Rajasthan Polls| ‘Cong involved in negative politics; BJP transformed state from 'bimaru' to developed’: Amit Shah

Dec 05, 2018, 01:25 PM IST

While the Congress promoted dynastic politics, making members of one family party presidents, the BJP gives importance to those who perform and work to push the country ahead, he said.

BJP President Amit Shah

‘Rath Yatra will be game changer in WB politics; will become deciding factor in next general elections’: BJP

India | Dec 05, 2018, 11:43 AM IST

The BJP has emerged as the biggest competition to the ruling TMC by outsmarting the CPI(M) and the Congress in several by-elections. Shah had set a target of winning 22 Lok Sabha seats out of 42 seats in the state.

PM Modi in Sumerpur LIVE: 'I don’t want to win just

Rajasthan Polls | We caught hold of 'raazdaar', now he will expose 'naamdaars': PM Modi in Sumerpur

Dec 05, 2018, 01:25 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah who have spearheaded the party throughout the election campaign will campaign in the state to seek people support for Vasundhara Raje.