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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Union Home Minister Amit Shah cast his vote in the third of the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections at a polling booth in Ahmedabad.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached the polling booth at Nishan Public School in Ranip locality of Ahmedabad city soon after the polling began at 7 am and cast his vote.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The third phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections concluded on Tuesday in 93 constituencies across 11 states and union territories. Assam, West Bengal, Goa witnessed highest while polling in Uttar Paradesh, Bihar and Gujarat remained below 60 per cent.
As many as 17.24 crore people, including 8.39 crore females, are eligible to vote and 1.85 lakh polling stations manned by 18.5 lakh officials have been set up. Polling in 93 constituencies will begin at 7 am and end at 6 pm in the third phase of the general elections.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: 93 constituencies are going for polls in the third phase on May 7. Voters in Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu will use their franchise in the third phase.
The list includes prominent leaders such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President JP Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Arvinder Singh Lovely, and several others.
A 'Run for Vote' marathon in Ahmedabad aimed to boost awareness among youth about the significance of voting in the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. In Gujarat, while the BJP historically dominated, the Congress, in alliance with the AAP, aims to contest 24 seats, with the AAP contesting in two.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The voters in 93 constituencies will use their franchise on May 7 in the third phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. 11 states and Union Territories including Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar will go to polls in the third phase.
The meeting between Jansatta Dal (Loktantrik) president and Uttar Pradesh's Kunda MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya has been seen as BJP's effort to sweep Uttar Pradesh which sends 80 MPs to Lok Sabha.
Lok Sabha Election 2024: 25 parliamentary seats of Gujarat will go to vote in the third phase on polling on May 7. In 2019 general elections, the Bhartiya Janta party swept the state winning all 26 seats.
Delhi Police on Saturday informed that additional charges of criminal conspiracy were added to the FIR registered in connection to the circulation of fake video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
On Sunday, Delhi Police registered an FIR in Amit Shah's fake video under Sections 153, 153A, 465, 469, and 171G of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 66C of the IT.
The NDA, consisting of various right-wing parties, experienced changes in leadership over time, with Narendra Modi leading the charge in the 2014 and 2019 general elections. Despite facing hurdles like the collapse of the govt due to the withdrawal of support by the AIADMK, NDA bounced back in 1999.
All four arrested people, who are associated with Telangana Congress IT cell, may be transited to Delhi on transit remand, according to the sources.
The Delhi Police had issued summons to Telangana CM Revanth Reddy and other four leaders of the party, and several other leaders from various state units of the party.
The Home Minister who was in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha election campaign said that this election is for ending terrorism and Naxalism and making India the third major economy globally.
This development comes a day after Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and four other leaders asked for an extension for their appearance before the Delhi Police in the matter. The BJP has filed a complaint against Reddy and the Congress state chief, alleging manipulation of Amit Shah's speech.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: The elections for the 18th Lok Sabha began on April 19 (Friday) followed by subsequent phases on April 26, May 7, May 13, May 20, May 25 and June 1. The counting of votes will be done on June 4.
Police in BJP-ruled Gujarat arrested a Congress leader and an AAP functionary, and Delhi Police issued notices to 12 more people from different opposition parties as the probe into the doctored video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's speech widened.
Congress Spokesperson Supriya Shrinate questioned the silence of PM Modi, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani and the delay in the National Commission for Women acting on the matter of Prajwal Revanna's alleged crimes.
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