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 MoreEarlier today, Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a rally and a press conference in Telangana, where the campaign for entire 17 Lok Sabha seats came to an end today. Polling in Telangana will be held on May 13. Results will be declared on June 4.
Addressing AAP workers and supporters a day after his release on interim bail from Tihar Jail, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claimed that Modi wants to pass on the baton to Shah as the BJP follows the practice of retiring its leaders after they are 75 years of age.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah clarifies that Prime Minister Narendra Modi won't be replaced, refuting claims made by Arvind Kejriwal. Shah asserts that there is no confusion within the BJP regarding Modi's leadership, emphasizing that he will continue to lead the country.
Amit Shah, who addressed election rallies in Telangana on the last day of campaigning for Lok Sabha polls in the state, recalled that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had conducted nuclear tests at Pokhran on this day in 1998 and made the country a nuclear power.
Kejriwal attacked BJP and said all thieves, dacoits are inducted by them. If the prime minister wants to learn about fighting corruption, he should learn from Arvind Kejriwal. We sent corrupt to jail and even our own ministers.
Union Home Minister held back-to-back rallies at Ranaghat and Birbhum Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal. Both the constituency will go to polls in the fourth phase on May 13.
The Congress on Friday dissociated itself from party leader Mani Shankar Aiyar's remarks on Pakistan, saying they have been revived by the BJP in its attempt to deflect attention from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s daily "goof ups".
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is campaigning in Telangana which will vote in the fourth phase on May 14. The state has a total of 17 Lok Sabha seats.
Targeting Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Home Minister Amit Shah said Uttar Pradesh will never support those who shy away from Lord Ram's work.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Highlights: The Lok Sabha polls began on April 19 followed by subsequent phases on April 26, May 7, May 13, May 20, May 25 and June 1. The counting of votes will be done on June 4 (Tuesday).
Union Home Minister Amit Shah cast his vote in the third of the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections at a polling booth in Ahmedabad.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached the polling booth at Nishan Public School in Ranip locality of Ahmedabad city soon after the polling began at 7 am and cast his vote.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The third phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections concluded on Tuesday in 93 constituencies across 11 states and union territories. Assam, West Bengal, Goa witnessed highest while polling in Uttar Paradesh, Bihar and Gujarat remained below 60 per cent.
As many as 17.24 crore people, including 8.39 crore females, are eligible to vote and 1.85 lakh polling stations manned by 18.5 lakh officials have been set up. Polling in 93 constituencies will begin at 7 am and end at 6 pm in the third phase of the general elections.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: 93 constituencies are going for polls in the third phase on May 7. Voters in Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu will use their franchise in the third phase.
The list includes prominent leaders such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President JP Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Arvinder Singh Lovely, and several others.
A 'Run for Vote' marathon in Ahmedabad aimed to boost awareness among youth about the significance of voting in the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. In Gujarat, while the BJP historically dominated, the Congress, in alliance with the AAP, aims to contest 24 seats, with the AAP contesting in two.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The voters in 93 constituencies will use their franchise on May 7 in the third phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. 11 states and Union Territories including Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar will go to polls in the third phase.
The meeting between Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik) president and Uttar Pradesh's Kunda MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya has been seen as BJP's effort to sweep Uttar Pradesh which sends 80 MPs to Lok Sabha.
Lok Sabha Election 2024: 25 parliamentary seats of Gujarat will go to vote in the third phase on polling on May 7. In 2019 general elections, the Bhartiya Janta party swept the state winning all 26 seats.
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