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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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BJP taking chai pe charcha in trains with images of Modi and Shah on cups

Politics | Jan 31, 2015, 08:15 AM IST

Amritsar: Passengers who asked for a cup of Tea in Amritsar bound Shatabdi Express on Thursday would have come across two known faces with an interesting appeal.These paper cups have images of PM Narendra Modi

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Delhi polls: BJP's chief ministerial candidate face missing from posters

Politics | Jan 31, 2015, 08:17 AM IST

New Delhi: BJP chief Amit Shah may have announced Kiran Bedi as party's chief ministerial candidate and may have sketched out the biggest plan for Delhi polls but it seems that party is still shying

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Delhi Polls: Want an experienced govt or go for an experiment, Amit Shah asks Delhi voters

Politics | Jan 30, 2015, 10:29 PM IST

New Delhi:  BJP chief Amit Shah today asked the voters of Delhi to decide whether they want an experienced government led by his party or go for an experiment in the upcoming Assembly poll.Addressing two

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Jayanthi Natarajan met BJP chief Amit Shah before quitting Congress?

Politics | Jan 30, 2015, 06:12 PM IST

New Delhi: Former union minister Jayanthi Natarajan had met BJP chief Amit Shah before making up her mind to quit Congress, according to reliable sources.Natarajan reportedly met with BJP president Amit Shah recently during the

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Delhi polls: Amit Shah defends Kiran Bedi, says BJP won't change strategy as per media perception

Politics | Jan 30, 2015, 08:41 AM IST

New Delhi: As over a week is left for Delhi elections, BJP is trying hard to clean sweep Delhi polls.Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah asked his colleagues during a meeting at the party headquarters

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Amit Shah defends Kiran Bedi, says BJP won't change strategy as per media perception

Politics | Jan 30, 2015, 07:03 AM IST

New Delhi:  Ruling out any rifts within the BJP, its chief Amit Shah today said that the party would emerge victorious with two-third majority in the upcoming Delhi elections.Claiming that the induction of former Team

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Delhi Polls: Amit Shah pulls up BJP leaders for lacklustre campaign

Politics | Jan 29, 2015, 10:32 PM IST

New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah today pulled up a number of senior leaders of party's Delhi unit for the “lacklustre” election campaign and sternly told them to put up a united fight to effectively

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BJP poses five questions for Arvind Kejriwal

Politics | Jan 29, 2015, 05:48 PM IST

New Delhi: With indications showing AAP chief  Arvind Kejrival putting up a tough fight,  BJP has revised its strategy of Delhi assembly elections. The party will ask five questions each day to Arvind Kejriwal till

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BJP core group reviews campaign, steps for Delhi win

Politics | Jan 29, 2015, 05:01 PM IST

New Delhi: The BJP's 18-member core group, headed by party president Amit Shah, Thursday reviewed the party campaigning for the Feb 7 Delhi assembly polls and discussed the steps needed to ensure the party's victory.According

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Delhi Polls: Fearing AAP, Shah, Jaitley take direct control of campaigning

Politics | Jan 29, 2015, 07:46 AM IST

New Delhi:  Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to engage its top leadership and ministers from the central government as the campaigning for the Delhi assembly elections is entering its final phase.  This decision was

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BJP-PDP close to seal alliance in Jammu and Kashmir

Politics | Jan 29, 2015, 07:34 AM IST

Jammu: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Jammu and Kashmir have narrowed down their differences on forging an alliance to form a ‘stable' government in the state.Both parties have agreed

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Ravishankar Prasad takes dig at Digvijay Singh

Politics | Jan 28, 2015, 11:33 PM IST

New Delhi: Union Minister Ravishankar Prasad today took a potshot at Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh and said he was “not taken seriously by his own party members” as he reacted to his jibe at

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Republic Day: How Obamas, Kiran Bedi and others ditch the rain

Lifestyle | Jan 27, 2015, 11:58 AM IST

New Delhi: With the rain playing spoilsport, the dignitaries gathered at Rajpath to witness India's 66th Republic Day parade were forced to wear caps and take cover under umbrellas and raincoats.US President Barack Obama, the

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Arvind Kejriwal will run away again, forget promises, alleges Amit Shah

Politics | Jan 25, 2015, 11:41 PM IST

New Delhi: Attacking Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, BJP president Amit Shah today asked the people of Delhi “not to vote for a person who runs away and forgets his promises”.Addressing two meetings of

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Delhi Polls: Amit Shah attacks Arvind Kejriwal over bribery remark

Politics | Jan 24, 2015, 09:27 PM IST

New Delhi: Lashing out at Arvind Kejriwal over his “bribery remarks”, BJP president Amit Shah today said that the AAP leader has “insulted” the people of Delhi and asked them to give a befitting reply

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Parliamentary board to decide on naming CM candidate for Bihar polls: Amit Shah

Politics | Jan 24, 2015, 02:46 PM IST

Patna:  The BJP parliamentary board will decide on whether to name the chief ministerial candidate for the Bihar assembly polls later this year, party president Amit Shah said here Saturday."It is for the BJP parliamentary

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Delhi polls: Amit Shah defends projecting Kiran Bedi as chief ministerial candidate

Politics | Jan 24, 2015, 02:34 PM IST

Patna: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today strongly denied "borrowing" Kiran Bedi to win Assembly elections in Delhi and played down the controversy over the charge that she had asked India Against Corruption movement leaders

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Amit Shah describes Janata Parivar reunion 'unethical'

Politics | Jan 24, 2015, 01:34 PM IST

Patna:  Describing the efforts of merger of Janata Parivar parties as “unethical”, BJP chief Amit Shah today said his party was not bothered about it as people would reject them in the coming Bihar Assembly

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Nitish Kumar joined hands with Congress for personal ambition to be PM, says BJP President Amit Shah

Politics | Jan 23, 2015, 04:48 PM IST

Patna: BJP Chief Amit Shah today hit out at former Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar accusing him joining hands with Congress to pursue his personal ambitions to become the Prime Minister and said he was

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Delhi Polls: Will get two-third majority in Delhi: Shah

Politics | Jan 23, 2015, 07:55 AM IST

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah Wednesday said the party will get two-thirds majority in the upcoming Feb 7 Delhi assembly polls.Addressing a conference of party workers in east Delhi along with

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