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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New Delhi: Amit Shah was born as Amitbhai Anilchandra to a rich businessman, Anilchandra Shah, in Bombay in 1964.Despite his non-political family background and a Bachelor's degree in biochemistry, he chose to become a Rashtriya
Patna: Accusing Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad of trying to turn the state assembly polls into a "battle between backwards and upper castes", BJP president Amit Shah today said his
Patna: With BJP on the backfoot over beef controversy and the writers' protest against “rising intolerance”, its chief Amit Shah today said BJP cannot be blamed for incidents which occurred in states ruled by other
New Delhi: Facing attack from outside and growing unease within, BJP chief Amit Shah today "reprimanded" several top party leaders who had made controversial comments on the Dadri lynching and beef row after Prime Minister
New Delhi: While BJP high command has sent a strong signal to BJP leaders warning them against making controversial remarks on cow slaughter and Dadri lynching, the RSS mouthpiece, Panchjanya has defended the killing of
New Delhi: With BJP under fire over controversial remarks of its leaders on Dadri and beef row, party chief Amit Shah has cracked the whip and warned them against making such remarks after Prime Minister
Ahmedabad: Patel quota agitation leader Hardik Patel has asked BJP president Amit Shah not to interfere in the ongoing agitation of the Patel community for its inclusion in the OBC reservation category. In an open message
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah has said that the lynching of a Muslim man over beef-eating rumours in Dadri of Uttar Pradesh was "wrong" and the perpetrators should be punished.He also
Patna: Attacking Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over the bribery video sting, BJP chief Amit Shah today dared him to make public the names of five other ministers who were allegedly involved in the scandal besides
Patna : BJP President Amit Shah said on Saturday Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar cannot develop Bihar and govern it carrying Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad's jungle raj on one shoulder and Congress' corruption on
New Delhi: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav today said that BJP president Amit Shah is a 'narbhakshi' (cannibal).He said that the BJP was over and there was no hope for their victory
New Delhi: BJP today approached the Election Commission seeking immediate withdrawal of an FIR against its chief Amit Shah for his "Chara chor" (fodder thief) remarks against RJD chief Lalu Prasad and demanded action against
Bhagalpur : Thanks to Bihar's known caste equations, the "Grand Alliance" appears to be sitting pretty in most of Bhagalpur's seven assembly constituencies. This is bad news for the BJP.Political activists admit that social engineering
Patna: FIRs were lodged against BJP president Amit Shah and RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday for allegedly violating the election code ahead of the Bihar assembly polls.While Prasad has been booked for his “Narbhakshi”
Bhagalpur/Rosera: Terming Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as a "mask" of the Grand Secular Alliance, BJP president Amit Shah today said that it would be "Jungle Raj-2" if Kumar returned to power."Nitish Kumar is only
Muzaffarnagar: BJP national President Amit Shah on Sunday said Chief Minister Nitish Kumar won't be able to bring development to Bihar by carrying two allies, Congress and RJD, on his shoulders."The Congress had presided over
Patna/Purnea: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi blasted Bihar CM Nitish Kumar for being "arrogant" enough to reject the special package, BJP President Amit Shah also attacked Kumar on similar line, stating that he
Begusarai: BJP president Amit Shah today attacked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, accusing him of backstabbing the NDA by snapping ties and said it was in line with his habit of "deceit" to grab power."Nitish
Rameswaram: Former President late APJ Abdul Kalam's grand nephew APJ Sheik Saleem, who joined the BJP recently, today said his decision to join the party was influenced by its development programmes like 'Make in India'.Saleem
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