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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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Amit Shah terms Bangladeshi migrants as ‘termites’, says each one of them will be removed from voters' list

India | Sep 22, 2018, 08:33 PM IST

Amit Shah said that Assam’s BJP government brought National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state and nearly 40 lakh illegal immigrants were identified. 

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Amit Shah accuses Rahul Gandhi of supporting 'urban Naxals' plotting to assassinate PM Modi

India | Sep 21, 2018, 05:49 PM IST

Amit Shah’s comments came after Maharashtra police arrested five human rights activists late last month for their alleged links with Maoists.

 
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BJP chief Amit Shah to visit poll-bound Chhattisgarh today, likely to lay roadmap for upcoming assembly elections

Elections | Sep 21, 2018, 08:56 AM IST

After arriving at the Swami Vivekananda Airport in Raipur, Shah will directly reach the Shadhani Darbar where he would participate in a programme organised by Sindhi community.  

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Lok Sabha elections 2019: Amit Shah and Nitish Kumar discuss seat sharing in Bihar

Sep 20, 2018, 01:11 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019:Besides Shah and Kumar, BJP's Bhupender Yadav and poll strategist Prashant Kishor, who recently joined the party, were also present in the meeting held at BJP chief's residence. The meeting lasted about 30 minutes.

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BJP chief Amit Shah meets party leaders, no breakthrough on Goa leadership

India | Sep 19, 2018, 10:08 PM IST

Parrikar, suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer, has been in and out of hospitals in Goa, Mumbai, New York and now Delhi since February, when his illness was diagnosed. 

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Triple talaq ordinance historic, says BJP chief Amit Shah

India | Sep 19, 2018, 04:52 PM IST

The Union Cabinet approved Wednesday an ordinance to ban the practice of instant triple talaq, with Law Minister saying there was a "compelling necessity" to bring the measure as instances of 'talaq-e-biddat' continued unabated despite the SC striking it down.

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‘Doubtful if Rahul Gandhi knows when Rabi and Kharif crops are grown’: Amit Shah takes jibe at Congress president

India | Sep 18, 2018, 11:29 PM IST

Shah lauded Rajasthan for playing an important role in formation of the Modi government at the Centre with a huge majority. The BJP won all 25 Lok Sabha seats from the state in the 2014 general elections. 

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Amit Shah can't seek votes in Vasundhara's name: Congress

Sep 18, 2018, 09:38 AM IST

Amit Shah was well aware that people in the state shall never vote for her, former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot told the media.  

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Rajasthan Polls 2018 | Think about Bharat Mata and Lotus when you campaign: Amit Shah to BJP workers

Sep 17, 2018, 07:28 PM IST

Addressing BJP workers at an event in industrial city Bhilwara, Shah asked them to work hard at booth level, saying elections cannot be won only through achievements of the government and it was an election of party workers rather than just of any minister or chief minister.

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BJP might have found a way to get 'free' crude oil: Chidambaram

Politics | Sep 16, 2018, 04:05 PM IST

While the Union government has asserted that it will not cut fuel prices, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah has claimed that the "Centre will soon arrest fuel prices", said Chidambaram in a tweet.

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Rajasthan Assembly polls: Amit Shah to tour state again

Sep 16, 2018, 11:14 AM IST

Rajasthan is slated to go for polls later this year.

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Telangana Polls: BJP chief Amit Shah rules out alliance with TRS

Politics | Sep 15, 2018, 07:33 PM IST

The BJP would not have any alliance with any party and it hoped to emerge as a "deciding factor" in the upcoming polls, Shah said.

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Centre will soon come out with solution to rising fuel prices: BJP chief Amit Shah

India | Sep 15, 2018, 06:05 PM IST

“The increasing petrol and diesel prices and sliding rupee against dollar are a cause of concern for both the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) and the government,” Shah said.

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Shah questions TRS for imposing early polls in Telangana, calls it 'additional burden' on people

India | Sep 15, 2018, 04:20 PM IST

He wanted to know why the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) imposed early polls on the state when Lok Sabha and Assembly elections are slated to be held nine months later.  

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BJP to take decision on Goa CM Manohar Parrikar at appropriate time: Amit Shah

India | Sep 15, 2018, 03:38 PM IST

Goa CM Parrikar is suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer. He  was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Saturday for further treatment and examination.

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Manohar Parrikar flown to Delhi for treatment at AIIMS; Goa Dy Speaker says he'll continue as CM

India | Sep 15, 2018, 02:49 PM IST

Sources said that Parrikar also conveyed Amit Shah that he could not keep working due to his illness.

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Upcoming Assembly elections trailer for 2019 polls, Congress should first name its PM candidate: Amit Shah

Sep 11, 2018, 11:38 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: He asked party workers to sweat for victory in the state elections which are scheduled later this year.

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Narendra Modi govt working for 'making India', Congress for 'breaking India': Amit Shah

India | Sep 08, 2018, 08:43 PM IST

The BJP chief, while addressing the party’s national executive meet, claimed that the party would win in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls with a mandate bigger than 2014.

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BJP extends party president Amit Shah's tenure till 2019 LS polls

Politics | Sep 08, 2018, 07:36 PM IST

Shah was elected unopposed as the party president on January 24, 2016, for a second term which was supposed to end in January 2019.

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Will win 2019 with huge margin, have world's best leadership, says Amit Shah as BJP holds big meet

Politics | Sep 08, 2018, 03:01 PM IST

During the meeting, the BJP is likely to highlight the Narendra Modi government's steps for 'social justice' and 'economic successes'.

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