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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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Lok Sabha elections 2024: Amit Shah urges youngsters to join 'Mera Pehla Vote Desh Ke Liye' campaign

India | Feb 27, 2024, 04:59 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (February 25) urged young and first-time voters to vote in record numbers in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

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'BJP revived 'BIMARU' Madhya Pradesh and tried to transform into developed state': Amit Shah

Feb 25, 2024, 08:32 PM IST

Amit Shah in Madhya Pradesh: The BIMARU acronym has often been used in the past few decades to refer to states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, usually to imply they have lagged in terms of economic growth, healthcare, education, and more. Its usage has also drawn criticism.

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Lok Sabha elections: BJP likely to release first list of candidates after Delhi meeting, say sources

India | Feb 24, 2024, 11:37 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2024: The meeting was chaired by BJP national president JP Nadda and was attended by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath among others.

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India | Feb 23, 2024, 11:49 PM IST

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Amit Shah, Chhattisgarh

Amit Shah sounds poll bugle, urges Chhattisgarh people to elect Modi to make India developed nation

Feb 22, 2024, 07:05 PM IST

With the Lok Sabha elections slated for 2024, political activities are gaining momentum across the country as parties gear up for campaigning. Central ministers, including Amit Shah, are embarking on tours of various states to mobilise support for their respective parties.

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Amit Shah embarks on day-long visit to Rajasthan

Feb 20, 2024, 02:40 PM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah embarked on a daylong visit to Rajasthan, commencing with his arrival in Bikaner. His packed schedule includes addressing the BJP's state election committee, engaging with party workers in Udaipur, and meeting prominent citizens in Jaipur.

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Ghulam Nabi Azad-Abdullahs engage in war of words over 'late night meeting with PM, HM' remark

India | Feb 19, 2024, 07:49 PM IST

Several media reports claimed that Ghulam Nabi Azad said that Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar met PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah "secretly" at night. Azad later clarified the purported remark and said that he never made such a claim. Abdullah lashed out at Azad over the matter.

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Rahul Gandhi to appear before court in defamation case tomorrow; 'Nyay Yatra' paused: Jairam Ramesh

India | Feb 19, 2024, 01:36 PM IST

As the legal proceedings unfolded, the temporary halt in the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra underscored the significant legal and political developments surrounding Rahul Gandhi's defamation case.

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'INDI alliance' leaders think of making their children PM, CM: Amit Shah at BJP national convention

India | Feb 18, 2024, 03:08 PM IST

A resolution passed in BJP national convention noted that the agriculture budget under the government rose nearly five times to Rs 1.25 lakh crore from what it was during the previous Congress-led UPA dispensation. There was arecord procurement of grains under the minimum support price (MSP) regime.

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BJP winning 370 seats will be true tribute to Syama Prasad Mukherjee: PM Modi at key BJP meet

India | Feb 17, 2024, 11:59 PM IST

From its elected panchayat heads to district presidents and Union ministers, the BJP's 'national council' meeting is going to be the ruling party's biggest organisational get-together in recent memory -- an exercise aimed at galvanising its cadre for the Lok Sabha polls.

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Amit Shah gives ‘winning formula’ to Karnataka BJP to sweep all 28 Lok Sabha seats with ally JDS

Feb 11, 2024, 11:47 PM IST

Karnataka BJP president BY Vijayendra said that all leaders who attended the meeting are confident that if Shah’s plan of action is implemented effectively at the booth level, the BJP and JD(S) can win all Lok Sabha seats in the state.

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Siddaramaiah challenges Amit Shah to hold public debate on Karnataka govt’s guarantee schemes

Feb 11, 2024, 08:30 PM IST

Siddaramaiah said that the state's treasury is not empty because of the guarantee schemes of his government but "instead, there is an unfair distribution of taxes from the Centre to the state".

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Amit Shah to discuss Lok Sabha poll strategy with Karnataka BJP leaders today

Feb 11, 2024, 01:49 PM IST

In the 2019 polls, BJP had won 26 of the total 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka, including Sumalatha Ambareesh, an independent supported by the party from Mandya. The Congress and the JD(S) had secured one seat each.

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Mizoram MP urges Amit Shah to reconsider decision to fence India-Myanmar border

Feb 10, 2024, 07:16 PM IST

Mizoram MP K Vanlalvena said the current international boundary with the neighbouring country was arbitrarily demarcated by the British without proper ground survey.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed Lok Sabha on Ram

Fight of 500 years has come to end: Amit Shah amid 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans in Lok Sabha

India | Feb 10, 2024, 03:18 PM IST

After so long, the country got a leadership under Prime Minister Narendra Modi which the world accepts and respects. Amit Shah recalled achievements of the Modi government while addressing Lok Sabha on Ram Temple construction.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah at Parliament House complex

CAA will be implemented before Lok Sabha elections, says Amit Shah

India | Feb 10, 2024, 01:26 PM IST

On the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the Home Minister said the people of the country believed for 500 years that the temple should be built at the place where Lord Ram was born but Congress didn't allow due to politics of appeasement.

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Bharat Ratna to Narasimha Rao, Charan Singh: How Amit Shah, BJP reacted

India | Feb 09, 2024, 05:26 PM IST

Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath were among the BJP leaders who hailed the decision and called it a 'befitting tribute.'

Security personnel at the site after a group of protestors

Haldwani: Six dead, several injured as illegal madrasa, mosque demolition triggers violence

India | Feb 09, 2024, 11:38 PM IST

Most of the people hospitalised after the violence at Malik ka Bagicha in the city's Banbhoolpura area were police personnel. The remaining were municipal workers involved in the demolition of the local madrasa and a mosque in its complex, they said.

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What is India-Myanmar Free Movement Regime or FMR? Know history, security concerns

Feb 08, 2024, 07:53 PM IST

The Free Movement Regime (FMR) allowed citizens residing close to both sides of the border to move 16 km into each other's territory without passport or visa.

Home Minister Amit Shah

Free Movement Regime between India and Myanmar scrapped, tweets Amit Shah

India | Feb 08, 2024, 12:55 PM IST

Myanmar is one of India's strategic neighbours and it shares a 1,640-kilometre border with a number of northeastern states, including militancy-hit Nagaland and Manipur. India, recently, called for a cessation of fighting between Myanmar's military and the anti-junta groups near the border.

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