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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 leads BJP's no-holds-barred attack in Gandhi bastion, says Rahul ruined Amethi

Politics | Oct 10, 2017, 07:24 PM IST

Referring to Rahul Gandhi as 'shahzada', Amit Shah dared the Congress VP to explain to the people what the three generations of Gandhis have done for Amethi.

BJP President Amit Shah is in Amethi today

BJP's Amethi rally: Modi govt brought 106 schemes for people of India, says Amit Shah

India | Oct 10, 2017, 01:36 PM IST

Keeping an eye on 2019 general elections, BJP president Amit Shah is expected to address a mega rally in the Gandhi bastion today.

Union Minister Piyush Goyal

BJP defends Amit Shah's son; Rs 100 cr defamation suit to be filed

Politics | Oct 08, 2017, 07:54 PM IST

Piyush Goyal asserted that Jay Amit Shah's businesses are fully legitimate and conducted in a lawful manner on commercial lines, which is reflected in his tax records and through banking transactions

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BJP workers killed in Kerala on orders of CM, says Amit Shah

Politics | Oct 08, 2017, 04:07 PM IST

Amit Shah alleged that the maximum killings of BJP and RSS workers have taken place in Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's home district.

Modi, Jaitley, Shah hold crucial meet on economic slowdown

PM Modi, Arun Jaitley, Amit Shah hold crucial meet

Politics | Oct 05, 2017, 08:19 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held a meeting with BJP chief Amit Shah and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

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Amit Shah skips BJP's 'Jana Raksha Yatra' in Kerala

Politics | Oct 05, 2017, 03:08 PM IST

BJP President Amit Shah on Thursday failed to turn up at Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's hometown to lead the 'Jana Raksha Yatra' that he had kicked off two days ago.

BJP President Amit Shah

Amit Shah announces two-week 'padyatra' in all state capitals against CPM violence

Politics | Oct 03, 2017, 06:55 PM IST

BJP chief Amit Shah on Tuesday announced a two-week 'padyatra' in all state capitals from tomorrow against the CPM's alleged targeting of his party's workers

BJP president Amit Shah in Kerala.

Kerala: Ahead of Amit Shah's march, three BJP workers attacked; no case registered yet

India | Oct 03, 2017, 02:45 PM IST

The attack on Monday night came ahead of the launch of 'Jan Raksha Yatra' by the saffron party.

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Ahead of BJP's 'Jan Raksha Yatra' in Kerala, party workers injured in attack by unidentified men

India | Oct 03, 2017, 08:04 AM IST

Three BJP workers were attacked by unidentified men allegedly belonging to the CPI(M) in Neeleswaram town in Kasaragod district last night.

BJP President Amit Shah

Remove 'Italian glasses' to see development: Amit Shah to Rahul

Politics | Oct 02, 2017, 07:46 PM IST

Shah added that the people of Gujarat were smart and would not vote for a party that had inflicted injustice on Gujarat for three generations

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Amit Shah sounds Gujarat poll bugle from Sardar Patel's native place, attacks Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Oct 04, 2017, 02:12 PM IST

Amit Shah paid tributes to Patel at his ancestral home in Karamsad along with Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel before launching the 'Gujarat Gaurav Yatra'.

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BHU violence: PM Modi, BJP chief speak to UP CM; three top police officials removed

Politics | Sep 25, 2017, 05:55 PM IST

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said PM Modi and Amit Shah spoke to UP CM Yogi Adityanath over the violence in BHU on Saturday.

Amit Shah apeaking at BJP's ongoing National Executive

BJP national executive: Amit Shah slams Rahul Gandhi for defending dynastic politics

Politics | Sep 25, 2017, 04:33 PM IST

Slamming Rahul Gandhi, Amit Shah said BJP believed in the politics of performance while the Congress banked on the "politics of appeasement and dynasty".

BJP national executive meting

BJP national executive: GDP fall, job crisis, party expansion, 2019 polls high on agenda today

Politics | Sep 25, 2017, 07:29 AM IST

The lack of jobs and the next round of Assembly polls among the other issues expected to dominate the meet which will be addressed by PM Modi and BJP president Amit Shah

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BJP under PM Modi has ended ‘dynastic, casteist and appeasement’ politics in India

Politics | Sep 20, 2017, 08:03 PM IST

"In May this year, our government under the leadership of Modiji completed three years in power, and in these three years a lot of changes have been seen in the country," Shah said.

Amit Shah appeared before a Gujarat court as a witness in a

'Don't know where Kodnani went from hospital on morning of Naroda Gam riot': Here's what Amit Shah told SIT Court

India | Sep 18, 2017, 07:17 PM IST

BJP chief Amit Shah told a Gujarat court that Kodnani was present with him in the state Assembly when the riots took place

BJP President Amit Shah

Maya Kodnani was not in Naroda Gam on the day when riots broke out: Amit Shah tells SIT court

India | Sep 18, 2017, 07:30 PM IST

BJP President Amit Shah on Monday told a sessions court in Ahmedabad that Maya Kodnani was not present in Naroda Gam on the day riots broke out

Amit Shah said Modi has pledged to fulfil Gandhi's dream of

Modi has pledged to fulfil Gandhi's dream of cleanliness: Amit Shah

Politics | Sep 17, 2017, 08:46 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pledged to fulfil Mahatma Gandhi's dream of cleanliness, BJP President Amit Shah said today.

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Amit Shah seeks account of performance from Rahul Gandhi

Politics | Sep 16, 2017, 08:52 PM IST

Stating that the BJP has launched several development programmes in the three years, Amit Shah said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is standing like a rock with Jharkhand or its development.

Amit Shah addresses a press conference in Ranchi

India has sovereign right to develop the country within its boundaries, says Amit Shah

Politics | Sep 16, 2017, 08:45 PM IST

Addressing the media persons in Ranchi, Amit Shah affirmed that ‘it is our sovereign right to develop the country inside our boundaries and we will utilise that right’.

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