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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 pays tributes to Arun Jaitley on his birth anniversary

News | Dec 28, 2020, 03:09 PM IST

Union home minister Amit Shah today paid tribute to Arun Jaitley on his 68th birth anniversary in Delhi. He also unveiled a six-feet statue of the late Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, formerly known as the Feroz Shah

Amit Shah on 3-day visit to Assam, Manipur

News | Dec 26, 2020, 09:40 AM IST

After attending the series of government and party programs in Assam, Shah on Sunday would visit Manipur and before leaving Imphal he would lay the foundation stone for the Churachandpur Medical College and meet the civil society leaders.

Govt ready to hold talks with open heart: Amit Shah on farmers' protest

News | Dec 25, 2020, 04:09 PM IST

Inviting the farmers' union for a dialogue over issues in farm laws, Home Minister Amit Shah said that the government is ready to hold talks with an open heart.

PM Modi is true well-wisher of farmers: Amit Shah

News | Dec 25, 2020, 03:01 PM IST

Calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi the "true well wisher" of farmers amid their protest against the three agriculture laws.

CM Mamata Banerjee hits-back at Amit Shah, says facts presented by Home Minister are not correct

Politics | Dec 22, 2020, 04:21 PM IST

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday hits back at Home Minister Amit Shah and accused him to presenting wrong facts and figures before the people. She also said that Job will be given to a family member of civic volunteers who died due to corona

Super 100 News : Mamata Banerjee accuses Amit Shah of spreading lies

News | Dec 21, 2020, 10:00 PM IST

The chief minister claimed that amit shah made false claims about the state during his two-day visit.

Kurukshetra : Mamata Banerjee to do road show in Bolpur on 29 December

Kurukshetra | Dec 21, 2020, 07:42 PM IST

Mamata Banerjee will do a road show on December 29 in Bolpur, Birbhum of West Bengal,where on Sunday Amit Shah did a road show.

Top 9: Amit Shah holds a roadshow in Bolpur, Birbhum of West Bengal

News | Dec 24, 2020, 03:52 PM IST

Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah is in West Bengal on a two-day visit to take stock of his party's affairs in West Bengal ahead of the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections.

Over 300 BJP workers killed in Bengal, no progress in investigation: Amit Shah

News | Dec 24, 2020, 03:59 PM IST

More than 300 BJP workers have been killed in Bengal and no progress in investigation of deaths, said Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah on December 20 during a press conference in West Bengal's Birbhum district.

We will win over 200 seats in Bengal and form government, says Amit Shah

News | Dec 24, 2020, 03:58 PM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah is in West Bengal on a two-day visit to take stock of his party's affairs in West Bengal ahead of the 2021 West Bengal elections. on sunday he held a roadshow after that he Addressed a Press Conference In Birbhum

Union Home Minister & BJP leader Amit Shah holds a roadshow in Bolpur, Birbhum of West Bengal.

News | Dec 24, 2020, 03:55 PM IST

Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah is in West Bengal on a two-day visit to take stock of his party's affairs in West Bengal ahead of the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections.

Haqikat Kya Hai: By the time West Bengal goes to polls, Mamata Banerjee will be left alone, says Amit Shah

Hakikat Kya Hai | Dec 19, 2020, 10:14 PM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said at a public rally in Medinipur on Saturday that Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee will be left alone in her party by the time West Bengal Assembly polls are held.

TMC's Madan Mitra mocks Suvendu Adhikari, says 'party is free from virus now'

Politics | Dec 19, 2020, 09:09 PM IST

All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Madan Mitra on December 19 mocked former TMC leader Suvendu Adhikari, who joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of Home Minister Amit Shah by saying TMC workers will celebrate gala evening today as 'we're free from the virus now'.

Kurukshetra | Will Amit Shah's visit to Midnapore change the equation of Bengal elections?

Kurukshetra | Dec 19, 2020, 07:40 PM IST

Amit Shah welcomed high-profile Trinamool Congress rebel Suvendu Adhikari and several others to the BJP on Saturday at a mega rally in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur, sparing no shot at CM Mamata Banerjee.

Give us 5 years, we'll turn Bengal into Sonar Bangla, says Amit Shah in Midnapore rally

Politics | Dec 19, 2020, 05:41 PM IST

You gave three decades to Congress, 27 years to Communists and 10 years to Mamata didi. Give 5 years to BJP, we will make Bengal 'Sonar Bangla'.

Former TMC leader Suvendu Adhikari joins BJP at Amit Shah's Midnapore rally

Politics | Dec 19, 2020, 04:14 PM IST

In a major setback to Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, former party leader Suvendu Adhikari joined BJP here on Saturday in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah at the Midnapore College Ground.

Amit Shah to make inroads in Mamata Banerjee's turf amid rebellion in TMC

News | Dec 18, 2020, 11:11 PM IST

Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive in Kolkata on Friday night on a two-day visit to take stock of the BJP's affairs in the state as the assembly elections draw near, amid a rebellion within the ruling Trinamool Congress.

Amit Shah Orders Probe Into Attack On JP Nadda's Convoy In Bengal

News | Dec 11, 2020, 12:19 PM IST

JP Nadda said he was unhurt because he was travelling in a bullet proof car but another BJP leader, Kailash Vijayvargiya, was injured.

Amit Shah to visit West Bengal as BJP, TMC cross swords

News | Dec 24, 2020, 03:56 PM IST

Amit Shah is likely to visit West Bengal later this month. It will be Shah’s second visit to the poll-bound state within a month.

Top 9: Farmers reject govt's proposals, want nothing but repeal of farm laws

News | Dec 10, 2020, 10:46 AM IST

Speaking at the presser, farmers said, "We will block Delhi-Jaipur highway by December 12 and while a pan-India agitation will be launched on December 14."