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.
Read MoreToday, the home minister is likely to visit the Shirdi temple in Ahmednagar and present the Vithalrao Vikhe Patil literary awards at a function in Loni.
Amit Shah also praised PM Modi for laying the foundation stone of Ram Temple in Ayodhya. Soon, the temple will be constructed at the site of Ram Janmabhoomi.
Five poll-bound states are Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab. Elections in these states will be held in February-March next year.
Home Minister Amit Shah will also inaugurate the 23 new branches of Uttar Pradesh Cooperative Bank tomorrow.
Thirteen of the 14 people killed in three episodes of firing by army personnel on December 4 and 5 belonged to the Konyak tribe, one of the major tribes of Nagaland.
The union threatened to take their agitation beyond the district and the state if their demand for repeal of AFSPA and justice in the killing was not heeded by the end of the mourning period on December 13.
Later in the evening, the Union Minister will also inaugurate various developmental projects including the opening of a railway bridge.Soon after the event, he is expected to return to Delhi.
The home minister said if a comparison is made between the development witnessed in the last five years in Manipur and the development in previous 70 years in the state, one can see more progress in the last five years.
The Home Minister said that the 'Government of India expresses deep regret over the unfortunate incident in Nagaland and also expresses deep sympathies to the bereaved families.
Congress leader Govind Singh Dotasra claimed that Shah did not even take the name of Poonia during his rally. Kataria, who is the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, was not given a chance to address the rally, he added.
Amit Shah is on a 2-day visit to Rajasthan, He addressed the Janpratinidhi Sankalp Sammelan in Jaipur today.
He will proceed to Jaipur later in the day to address the BJP state working committee meeting.
The Home Minister will attend the BSF's Raising Day event on December 5 morning and then leave for Jaipur.
Article 370, a temporary provision in the Constitution, gave special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir while Article 35-A prohibited people from the rest of India to buy properties in the erstwhile state.
He also said PM Narendra Modi ensured an optimum utilisation of resources to successfully fight oxygen shortage during the second wave of coronavirus in the country.
Yahoo today announced the 2021 Year in Review (YIR*) for India, a collection of the year’s top personalities, newsmakers, and events, based on users’ daily search habits.
Maa Shakumbhari Devi University will be constructed at Rs 92 crore over 50.43 acres and is named after goddess Shakumbari Devi.
On Sunday, Amit Shah will inaugurate AmulFed Dairy's new milk powder factory, a poly film manufacturing plant, and other projects set up at a combined cost Rs 415 crore in Gandhinagar.
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is in Delhi to meet PM Modi where she is expected to raise the Tripura violence issue, enhancement of BSF jurisdiction as well as the ongoing "atrocities" in Tripura.
Earlier today, a total of 16 TMC MPs including Derek O'Brien, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Santanu Sen, and Mala Roy arrived at the party office in Delhi and held a protest outside the MHA.
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