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 MoreAddressing a poll rally in Assam's Sonapur, Amit Shah said that if there is a government of Congress and Badruddin Ajmal, there will be no stop to infiltration
Union Ministers Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah too on Monday extended greetings to the people of India on the occasion of Holi and wished that the festival brings happiness, health and prosperity in the lives of people.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday declined to confirm or deny his purported meeting with NCP supremo Sharad Pawar.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday questioned Home Minister Amit Shah's claim of BJP winning 26 out of 30 seats in the first phase of Bengal elections, polling for which took place on Saturday.
West Bengal Actor Mithun Chakraborty, who recently joined Bharatiya Janata Party, conducted a roadshow in Bengal's Bishnupur region, a day after the first phase of polling concluded. Speaking on the high voter turnout in the first phase, Mithun said it shows that the change is coming.
Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah on Sunday said according to the feedback received from the ground, the saffron party will win 26 of the 30 seats that went to polls in the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly election.
Polling for the first phase of West Bengal and Assam assembly elections 2021 was held on Saturday. A voter turnout of 79.79 percent was recorded in Bengal and 72.14 percent in Assam till 5 PM (not final figure), the Election Commission said. Voting was held in 30 assembly constituencies in West Bengal and 47 seats in Assam in this phase with a total of 21,825 polling stations.
Amit Shah said that the BJP will enact laws to tackle the menace of love and land jihad in Assam if it is voted to power.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday took up the matter of alleged harassment of nuns belonging to a Kerala-based congregation in Uttar Pradesh recently with Home Minister Amit Shah promising strong action.
Home Minister Amit Shah, who conducted a roadshow in Bengal's Medinipur on Tuesday, in an exclusive conversation with India TV said that there is a wave of change in Bengal adding with full confidence that his party will form the next government with a thumping majority.
Amit Shah said that if BJP forms the government in West Bengal after the Assembly polls, a committee will be set up to probe the siphoning off relief funds.
Amit Shah said that it was evident from the enthusiasm of the people that the BJP was going to form the government for a second consecutive term in Assam.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday released Bharatiya Janata Party's election manifesto for the forthcoming assembly election in West Bengal.
Veteran TMC MP Sisir Adhikari - father of BJP heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari - joined the BJP in Egra on Sunday in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other senior leaders of the party.
Confirming the invitation from BJP top brass, Adhikari's son and TMC MP Dibyendu Adhikari told reporters, "We have spoken to the BJP leadership. We will take the final decision about whether to attend or not tomorrow morning."
A heated argument broke out between Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's interaction with chief ministers on the prevailing coronavirus situation, sources said.
BJP's star campaigners Tuesday carpet-bombed West Bengal with rallies, ridiculing Mamata Banerjee for her recent visit to temples and her new-found love for 'Chandi path', provoking retaliatory fire from the TMC boss who accused Home Minister Amit Shah of hatching a conspiracy against her party.
While West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee cried "conspiracy" over the Nandigram incident last week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah chose to refrain from using the term when his helicopter suffered a glitch on Monday.
Amit Shah has accused the Mamata Banerjee government of blocking the Central government’s schemes in West Bengal. He said that the BJP, if forms the government, will end the 'gunda raj'.
The BJP made deep inroads in West Bengal by winning 18 of its 42 Lok Sabha seats in 2019 - only four less than ruling TMC. The BJP is projecting itseld as an alternative to the Trinamool Congress which is ruling the state since 2011 under Mamata Banerjee’s leadership.
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