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 MoreIn November, Amit Shah is scheduled to make two important visits to Uttar Pradesh, one of which is going to start today and continue for two days.
The meet will also be attended by the Lieutenant Governors of the Union Territories of Andaman and Nicobar, Puducherry as well as the administrator of Puducherry.
Amit Shah will also visit Azamgarh, the parliamentary constituency of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, to lay the foundation of a university.
Earlier on Sunday, Shah launched the Dairy Sahakar scheme at Gujarat's Anand with the overall objectives of doubling the farmers' income and Atmanirbhar Bharat.
National Unity Day is celebrated in India on October 31. It was introduced by the Central government in 2014.
The acharyas discussed certain issues pertaining to Hindu Dharma and culture which require restorative actions from the government.
Polls for the 70 member Uttarakhand Assembly are scheduled to take place in early 2022. In the 2017 elections, BJP secured 57 assembly seats, Congress won 11 seats and the rest of the seats were won by others.
Uttar Pradesh is slated to go to the polls early next year. In the 2017 polls, the BJP had secured a brute majority, winning 312 seats.
Home Minister Amit Shah to visit Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh to attend the various programmes, launch BJP's membership drive.
This will be Amarinder Singh's second meeting with Amit Shah after he resigned as the Chief Minister of Punjab on September 18.
Amit Shah will release the departmental magazine 'Sahakar Se Samridhi' and will also duly inaugurate the PACS computerization.
Sardar Patel's birth anniversary on Oct 31 is celebrated as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas since 2014, with a national-level celebration at the Statue of Unity.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah also planted a sapling in the memory of the Pulwama terror attack martyrs.
Amit Shah, who extended his three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, stayed for the night at the CRPF Campus in Lethpora in Pulwama where a suicide car bomb attack by Pakistan-sponsored terrorists in February 2019 had left 40 paramilitary personnel dead.
Dr. Farooq Sahib has suggested that we should talk to Pakistan. Let me clarify, if we will talk, we will talk to people of Jammu and Kashmir and its youth only, no one else, Amit Shah said.
Home Minister Amit Shah, after removing the shield, said that he wanted to speak to the people of Jammu and Kashmir directly.
Nearly 3,000 Kashmiri Pandit employees recruited under the prime minister's special recruitment package have been appointed in the valley since 2010.
Amit Shah's visit comes amid several incidents of killings of civilians by the terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir which is sparking fear in the valley.
Addressing a public rally in Bhagwati Nagar area of Jammu city, Home Minister Amit Shah said, "The monopoly of three families is over once and forever."
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said, "When PM invited political leaders from Kashmir at his residence, I had demanded that we'd like to have statehood followed by the elections. Other parties also demanded. Home Minister assured us that statehood will be granted and delimitation commission will give the report."
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