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 MoreThe two leaders are scheduled to meet over breakfast at the State Guest House and again for dinner at the chief minister's official residence today.
The meeting gains significance after JDU’s consistent insistence for playing big bother role in Bihar and on that BJP’s comment on Monday that “no one is the big brother except the people”.
It is pertinent to mention here that since a long time JDU is saying that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will play a big brother role in the state during the Lok Sabha elections 2019.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: Amit Shah also promised to give the nation a clean government.
Remembering Dr Mookerji, PM Modi said that he fought for the independence as well as integration of India.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: The BJP won 71 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the 2014 general elections and 312 of the 403 Assembly seats in 2017.
National Students Union of India members filed the complaints in 100 districts of 28 states, Ruchi Gupta, joint-secretary of All India Congress Committee and NSUI in-charge, said.
Shah is likely to take note of the situation and resolve the issues with the party alley. Kerala, dominated by the bipolar politics of CPI(M)-led LDF and Congress-headed UDF, continues to be a tough ground for the BJP to make inroads.
While Congress president Rahul Gandhi will be on a two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency Amethi from July 4, during which he is likely to meet party workers and attend several programmes, BJP president Amit Shah will be in Varanasi, Mirzapur and Agra on the same dates.
Shah will be in Kerala tomorrow, in UP on July 4 and 5, in Jharkhand on July 11 and in Bihar on July 12 before he concludes the exercise on July 22 with meetings in Mumbai with various party wings of Maharashtra and Goa, BJP sources said.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: From July 4, Congress president Rahul Gandhi will be on a two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency Amethi. During the same time, BJP president Amit Shah will be in Varanasi, Mirzapur and Agra.
Owaisi even challenged the Congress to contest from Hyderabad and said even if both parties (BJP, Congress) join hands, they won't be able to defeat AIMIM.
In rigorous attacks at the Mamata-led TMC government, the BJP chief said that its people "who are used to listening to Rabindra Sangeet are now hearing the sound of bomb blasts".
The MLAs alleged that several state ministers and the bureaucracy were not listening to them and were showing a callous attitude towards the public representatives
Describing the decision of dropping the stanzas of the song as a “big mistake,” Shah said that the Congress party put a “blot of communalism” on such a pure work of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.
During the visit, Shah is expected to hold a series of meetings with party workers and intellectuals in Kolkata and Howrah
In a string of tweets, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief said that whatever happened during the time of the PDP-BJP rule in the state was in accordance with the Agenda of Alliance (AoA) the two parties had drawn up.
In a statement, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said Amit Shah had no business to lecture the Congress on nationalism and that the BJP would never be able to realise the hard work which the UPA did to usher peace in Jammu and Kashmir.
The BJP chief alleged that when the Congress leaders make remarks on Kashmir, Lashkar-e-taiba comes forward to support them.
Shah is scheduled to address a rally in the city to mark the 65th death anniversary of Bhartiya Jan Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee.
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