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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Kolkata: Trying to revive the fortunes of the party in a state where it has traditionally been weak, the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership in West Bengal has roped in the services of two of party
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday asked Gujarat cadre IAS officer Pradeep Sharma, now under suspension, to remove offending references to then chief minister Narendra Modi before it takes up his plea for transfer of
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today ordered Snoopgate petitioner to delete scandalous allegations against Narendra Modi which accused him of instructing police to illegally spy on a woman. Pradeep Sharma, a suspended bureaucrat from Gujarat
Mumbai: BJP will use the expertise of party president Amit Shah in replicating the success his “formula” got in Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh, in ensuing Maharashtra Assembly polls, state unit president Devendra Fadnavis
Lucknow: In his first visit to Uttar Pradesh after being elevated to the post of BJP president, Amit Shah will address a workers' convention in Lucknow on August 19 and inaugurate a public relations office
New Delhi: New BJP President Amit Shah today warned party MPs against any disconnect with voters and asked them to remain connected ahead of the forthcoming Assembly elections in four states and bypolls in some
New Delhi: On a day when Haryana Power Minister Ajay Yadav quit the Hooda government, senior party leader from the state Birender Singh today held a closed-door meeting with BJP President Amit Shah here, amid
New Delhi: With a motto of minimizing the bridge between people and their elected representatives, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has launched a mobile phone app ‘Constituency Connect App' for Delhiities through which they can
Lucknow: BJP national president Amit Shah would be visiting Lucknow on August 19 on his first trip to the city after being elevated to the top post of the party. “Our national president Amit Shah
New Delhi: Noting that the party is the bridge between the government and the people, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah said that women workers of the party should lead the way in taking
New Delhi: BJP's National Council is likely to meet here on August 9 to ratify the appointment of Amit Shah as the party President.Shah had taken over as BJP chief on July 9 after Rajnath
Nagpur: BJP president Amit Shah held a closed door meeting with RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat and Sarkaryawaha Bhaiyyaji Joshi, at the RSS headquarters in Mahal area of the eastern part of the city, here today.
New Delhi: Gearing up for coming assembly elections, BJP President Amit Shah today held meetings with the party units in poll-bound states of Maharashtra and Jharkhand in a bid to firm up the party's strategy
Mumbai: A sessions court here today adjourned till July 24 the hearing on a discharge application filed by BJP leader Amit Shah in connection with the alleged fake encounter cases of Tulsiram Prajapati and Sohrabuddin
New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi appointed his most trusted aide, Amit Shah Wednesday as President of the BJP, thus clasping fast and steady the reigns of power of the right-wing party that recently achieved a
Ahmedabad: Setting out his agenda, BJP's new President Amit Shah today said the party needs to be strengthened in eastern and southern parts of India. “BJP is not yet strong in southern and eastern states.
New Delhi: BJP leaders Thursday welcomed the 2014-15 budget, saying it will lead to revival of economy."The budget has successfully captured the imagination of the people by addressing their hopes and aspirations. It has defined
New Delhi: The CPI-M said Thursday that the selection of Amit Shah as the BJP president showed that the party will pursue "communal politics" that was practiced in Gujarat."The selection of Shah indicates the direction
Mumbai: A full 10 years after it broke away from the Congress-NCP alliance in Maharashtra, the Samajwadi Party is keen to rebuild the partnership for the ensuing assembly elections, a top leader said Wednesday.State Samajwadi
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