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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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Cops who filed charge sheet against Amit Shah transfered

Politics | Oct 04, 2014, 08:09 PM IST

Muzaffarnagar: Two policemen who were involved in preparation of the charge sheet against BJP President Amit Shah for alleged hate speech, which was rejected by a local court, have been transfered.Deputy Superintendent of Police (New

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Would you prefer to go to Tihar jail for getting work done, Modi asks people in Karnal rally

Politics | Oct 04, 2014, 03:39 PM IST

Karnal: Prime Minister today addressed his first election rally in Haryana to seek votes for his party in upcoming assembly elections.Targeting INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala who has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in

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Cleanliness campaign should become a mass movement: Amit Shah

Politics | Oct 02, 2014, 11:33 PM IST

Mumbai: The cleanliness campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi should become a mass movement with participation of all sections of society, BJP president Amit Shah said here today.“All political parties, social and religious organisations

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Aditya Thackeray to BJP: If a person can vote at 18 and marry at 21, how can you call him immature at 24?

Politics | Oct 02, 2014, 04:40 PM IST

Mumbai: 25-year-old Shiv Sena and BJP alliance is now a history but wounds still remain fresh and raw. Speaking to a news channel, Yuva Sena leader Aditya Thackeray emotionally expresses his anguish at the BJP

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Amit Shah and D P Yadav are 'birds of a feather', says Congress

Politics | Oct 01, 2014, 05:44 PM IST

New Delhi:  Congress today targeted BJP chief Amit Shah over his sharing of the dais with mafia don-turned-politician DP Yadav during an election rally, saying birds of a feather flock together.The party also expressed displeasure

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Resentment in BJP over Amit Shah sharing dais with DP Yadav

Politics | Oct 01, 2014, 02:16 PM IST

New Delhi: Resentment within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has surfaced after party president Amit Shah was seen sharing dais with controversial politician DP Yadav, who was thrown out of the party a decade ago,

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Press lotus symbol so hard that current is felt in Italy: Amit Shah

Politics | Sep 29, 2014, 05:52 PM IST

Chandigarh: Launching BJP's campaign for Haryana Assembly polls, party president Amit Shah today alleged that corruption had flourished during the successive governments in state and sought a decisive mandate for all-round development of the state.

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Maharashtra, Haryana polls: Last day of filing nominations today

Politics | Oct 01, 2014, 03:39 PM IST

New Delhi: Today is the last day of filing the nominations for the upcoming Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections, which will take place on October 15. The filing of nominations will end at 3 pm.Maharashtra

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Maharashtra Polls: Sena-BJP alliance on the verge of collapse

Politics | Sep 25, 2014, 01:40 PM IST

Mumbai: Amid indications that the 25-year-old Shiv Sena-BJP alliance might be on the verge of collapse, both parties are making efforts to win over the smaller members of the ‘Mahayuti'.“Whatever happens, the allies will be

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BJP president Amit Shah's Mumbai visit cancelled

Politics | Sep 25, 2014, 11:29 AM IST

Mumbai: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Amit Shah's Mumbai visit has been cancelled, party sources said today morning.Shah was expected to arrive here to take part in an event at Rambhau Mhalgi, Bhayandar.BJP leader Vinay Sahasrabuddhe

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Amit Shah to clinch alliance with Shiv Sena, others

Politics | Sep 24, 2014, 11:48 PM IST

Mumbai: Amidst threats by smaller parties to quit the Grand Alliance in Maharashtra, BJP president Amit Shah is likely to arrive here Thursday and seal the deal with the Shiv Sena, party sources said late

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Ram temple should be constructed at earliest, says VHP chief

India | Sep 25, 2014, 06:31 AM IST

Gorkahpur: VHP leader Ashok Singhal today raked up the issue of construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya at a function here organised to commemorate former BJP MP Mahant Avaidyanath, one of the leading lights of

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Shiv Sena-BJP alliance headed for rocky waters amid trust deficit

Politics | Sep 24, 2014, 11:21 PM IST

Mumbai: The 25 years old Shiv Sena-BJP alliance tonight appeared heading for rocky waters, with neither party willing to concede seats, in an indication of the trust deficit ahead of the October 15 Assembly elections

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BJP- Shiv Sena alliance on breakpoint, formal announcement tomorrow

Politics | Sep 22, 2014, 09:51 PM IST

New Delhi: The BJP-Shiv Sena alliance of 25 years has finally broken. But the formal announcement will be done tomorrow. As per sources, both the parties failed to reach to an agreement on the seat

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Maharashtra polls: Amit Shah calls Uddhav Thackeray on seat sharing

Politics | Oct 01, 2014, 03:41 PM IST

New Delhi:  BJP president Amit Shah Monday called Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and urged him to reconsider his stand on seat sharing in upcoming Maharashtra poll.The two parties, which have been alliance partners for

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Maharashtra: Stalemate continues over seat sharing between BJP-Shiv Sena

Politics | Sep 22, 2014, 07:36 AM IST

New Delhi/Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra are struggling hard to salvage their 25-year-old alliance for the upcoming assembly polls after a tough-talking Uddhav Thackeray refused to yield beyond

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Maha Assembly: Uddhav's final offer for seats; 151 for Sena, 119 for BJP

Politics | Sep 21, 2014, 02:54 PM IST

Mumbai: Shiv Sena today made it clear that it won't make any more concession for BJP, offering to cede it only 119 out of the total 288 seats in Maharashtra Assembly for the next month's

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Why BJP lost? No anti Gandhi anger to harvest

Politics | Sep 20, 2014, 12:46 PM IST

Recent by-election reverses for the BJP are early intimations of mortality for the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duet. As a senior BJP leader whispered: "They must come down to earth." In other words, a degree of

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BJP, Shiv Sena change tone, trying their best to save alliance

Politics | Sep 19, 2014, 09:40 PM IST

Mumbai: It seems both BJP and Shiv Sena have finally realized that if they have to register victory  in the upcoming assembly elections in Maharashtra then they can't afford to break the 25-year-old alliance.The tone

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Maharashtra polls: BJP 'hijacks' Sena slogan 'Jai Bhavani Jai Shivaji'

Politics | Oct 01, 2014, 03:35 PM IST

Pune: The BJP virtually hijacked Shiv Sena's slogan “Jai Bhavani Jai Shivaji” at the workers' rally addressed here by party president Amit Shah, indicative of a political one-up-manship in the backdrop of an ongoing bitter

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