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 MoreShah tweeted, "Rahul Gandhi says 'Modi Hatao'. Pakistan says 'Modi Hatao'. Now Pakistan also supports Rahul Gandhi's baseless allegations against PM Modi. Is Congress forming an International Mahagathbandhan against PM Modi?"
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.
Amit Shah’s comments came after Maharashtra police arrested five human rights activists late last month for their alleged links with Maoists.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Amit Shah was well aware that people in the state shall never vote for her, former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot told the media.
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.
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.
Rajasthan is slated to go for polls later this year.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
Sources said that Parrikar also conveyed Amit Shah that he could not keep working due to his illness.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: He asked party workers to sweat for victory in the state elections which are scheduled later this year.
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.
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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