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 is likely to visit West Bengal later this month. It will be Shah’s second visit to the poll-bound state within a month.
JP Nadda security lapse: BJP president arrived in Kolkata on Wednesday on a two-day visit. He launched the 'Griha Sampark Abhiyan' as part of the party's 'Aar Noi Annay' (No More Injustice) campaign in the poll-bound state.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of a new Parliament building on Thursday (Dec 10) at an event that will be attended by leaders from various political parties, cabinet ministers, and ambassadors of different countries.
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday met Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss the next course of action after farmer leaders rejected the Centre's draft proposal to amend the new Agri laws, sources said.
Amit Shah met farmer leaders on Tuesday night at the PUSA institute. Shah offered to amend the three laws. But the farmer leaders rejected the government's offer, saying they will settle for nothing less than the scrapping.
A group of farmer leaders will meet Shah on Tuesday evening, a day before their sixth round of talks with Union ministers slated for Wednesday.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday called farmers for talks, a day ahead of the government's sixth round of negotiations to end the deadlock over the farm laws.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid tributes to the architect of the Constitution Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar on his 64th death anniversary which is observed as "Mahaparinirvana Diwas". Taking to twitter, PM Modi said government is committed to fulfilling the dreams that the leader had for India, adding that his thoughts continue to provide strength to millions of people.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah expressed their condolences over the demise of the Administrator of Lakshadweep and former interlocutor to Jammu and Kashmir Dineshwar Sharma, on Friday.
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday afternoon met Home Minister in Delhi. He said that the Centre should listen to the farmers and address their grievances over the three farm laws.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said the Modi government is committed to provide all possible help to the people of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the wake of Cyclone Burevi's impending landfall along the southern coast.
Delhi Farmers Protest: Thousands of farmers from Punjab and Haryana are protesting against the new farm laws. Farmers have said that they will continue their agitation till the three farm laws are repealed.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh will be holding talks ahead of the crucial Centre-farmers' meeting over farm laws.
Top Union ministers including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, and Narendra Singh Tomar have reached party president JP adda's residence to chalk out the strategy to end the stalemate over the farm laws.
The gross domestic product (GDP) had contracted by a record 23.9 per cent in the first quarter (April-June) of the 2020-21 fiscal as the coronavirus lockdown pummelled economic activity.
With thousands of farmers continuing their protest against the Centre's new agri laws, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said they were for the welfare of farmers and called their agitation apolitical.
Farmers agitating against the Centre's new agri laws on Sunday refused to accept any conditions, including moving to the city's Burari ground from the Singhu and Tikri border points. They have decided to gherao Delhi by blocking five main entry points.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will free Hyderabad from the "Nawab, Nizam culture" and create a "mini-India" here.
Asserting that the people of Telangana are angry and upset with the ruling TRS in Telangana and Owaisi's "alliance", Union Home Minister and top BJPleader Amit Shah on Sunday predicted this time Hyderabad will elect a BJP Mayor in the city's civic polls.
Accompanied by top BJP leaders, Shah had 'darshan' at the temple and made his offerings amid chanting of hymns by the priests. The temple management committee felicitated him on the occasion.
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