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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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Amit Shah likely to visit Gujarat on June 20-21

India | Jun 18, 2021, 09:06 AM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah is likely to visit his home state Gujarat for two days on June 20 and 21, sources said on Thursday.

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Bengal Governor in Delhi day after row over letter to Mamata; may meet Amit Shah, PM Modi

India | Jun 16, 2021, 10:39 AM IST

Dhankhar has been at loggerheads with the Trinamool Congress government on several issues since taking over in July 2019.

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Mission Punjab: Amit Shah, JP Nadda deliberate upon assembly polls

India | Jun 16, 2021, 10:17 AM IST

BJP prez JP Nadda, senior party leader and Amit Shah met with the party's Punjab unit head Ashwani Sharma and the party general secretary Tarun Chugh at the party headquarters in Delhi.

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Cabinet expansion, reshuffle on cards? Speculations rise as PM Modi meets union ministers, BJP chief

India | Jul 06, 2021, 08:22 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met Union ministers, including Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari, along with BJP president JP Nadda, sources said.

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Modi cabinet reshuffle on cards? PM, Amit Shah, Nadda meeting triggers speculation

India | Jun 11, 2021, 10:35 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda met on Friday amid speculation about a reshuffle in the Union cabinet, an exercise Modi has not undertaken since forming the government for a second time in May 2019.

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Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath meets PM Narendra Modi in Delhi

India | Jun 11, 2021, 02:01 PM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi.

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Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath meets Amit Shah, to visit PM Modi Friday

India | Jun 10, 2021, 10:54 PM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi. He will meet PM Modi on Friday.

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'...like garbage dumped in dustbin': Madhya Pradesh Congress on Jitin Prasada joining BJP

India | Jun 09, 2021, 07:39 PM IST

Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) lashed out at two time Lok Sabha MP and former party leader Jitin Prasada for joining BJP and said it was like dumping garbage in a dustbin.

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Suvendu Adhikari meets Amit Shah in Delhi, will call on PM Modi tomorrow

India | Jun 08, 2021, 01:08 PM IST

BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah at the latter's residence in Delhi.

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Amit Shah inaugurates 9 oxygen plants at hospitals in Gujarat

India | Jun 03, 2021, 02:45 PM IST

The oxygen plants have been set up by an NGO - Vallabh Youth Organisation - at hospitals in Tilakvada, Sagbara, Ahmedabad (Sola civil), Daskroi in Ahmedabad district, Kalavad, Kapadvanj, Bhanwad, Mehsana and Porbandar

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'CM's conduct an insult to people of Bengal': MP CM on Mamata's late arrival for cyclone review meet

India | May 29, 2021, 08:10 AM IST

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday took a dig at West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee by calling her conduct "an insult to people of Bengal". 

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'Arrogance, petty behaviour': Amit Shah bashes Mamata Banerjee for skipping cyclone review meeting

India | May 28, 2021, 08:38 PM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for skipping a review meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi over damage caused by cyclone Yaas in the state saying it was her arrogance above public welfare.

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Cyclone Yaas: Amit Shah reviews preparation with CMs of Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh

India | May 24, 2021, 04:35 PM IST

​Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday reviewed the preparations for Cyclone Yaas including the evacuation of people on the high seas as well as in vulnerable coastal areas and the safety of COVID-19 facilities.

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Cyclone Tauktae: Amit Shah speaks to Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan CMs

India | May 18, 2021, 02:17 PM IST

Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday spoke to the chief ministers of Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Rajasthan and took stock of the situation in their states after the landfall of Cyclone Tauktae

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Cyclone Tauktae: Amit Shah stresses on protection of COVID hospitals, oxygen plants

India | May 16, 2021, 08:27 PM IST

At a video-conference with CMs of Gujarat, Maharashtra and the administrators of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Shah also advised them to ensure adequate stocks of all essential medicines and supplies in the hospitals, keeping in view a likely disruption in the movement of vehicles, a statement issued by the Union home ministry said.

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International Nurses Day: Amit Shah praises nurses for their relentless service to mankind

India | May 12, 2021, 04:30 PM IST

"We salute our nursing staff for their selfless care, devotion and commitment," Shah said on his Twitter account.

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Assam BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma meets party chief J P Nadda, Amit Shah in Delhi

India | May 08, 2021, 12:10 PM IST

Both Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Health Minister Himanta Sarma were on Friday called to New Delhi by the BJP central leadership, apparently to discuss the leadership issue of the next government.

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Former J-K governor Jagmohan passes away at 93; PM, president pay tributes

India | May 04, 2021, 02:50 PM IST

Former Jammu and Kashmir governor Jagmohan passed away after a brief spell of illness.

Mamata Banerjee all set for third term as West Bengal Chief

Mamata scripts hat-trick to safeguard Bengal citadel, stalls BJP's poll juggernaut

Elections | May 02, 2021, 11:49 PM IST

With Mamata Banerjee powering the Trinamool Congress to a "landslide" victory in West Bengal overcoming 10 years of anti-incumbency, a full-throttle BJP campaign and a rebellious former lieutenant, she has become the "natural leader" to guide the Opposition's politics against the BJP in the coming days, some leaders said Sunday.

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Assam earthquake: PM Modi, Amit Shah, Sitharaman assure all possible help to state

India | Apr 28, 2021, 05:03 PM IST

An earthquake of 6. 4 magnitude, followed by a series of aftershocks, hit Assam this morning, causing widespread damage in the Northeast state