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 MoreAhead of Delhi assembly election 2020, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has stepped up attack on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and dared the AAP chief to visit the anti-CAA protest site at Shaheen Bagh so that the people of Delhi can decide whom to vote for in the assembly election.
Similar agreements in 1993 and 2003 have come apart as not all Bodo groups were onboard on both occasions. The new agreement, the signing of which was presided over by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, gives increased autonomy to the BTC
An agreement has been signed between Home Minister Amit Shah and National Democratic Front of Bodoland factions."1,550 cadres along with 130 weapons will surrender on 30th January. As the Home Minister, I want to assure all representatives that all promises will be fulfilled in a time-bound manner," said the former BJP President on the matter.
We will ensure that incidents like Shaheen Bagh don’t take place if BJP comes to power in Delhi, Amit Shah said at an election rally on Sunday
Assam, the state that kickstarted the anti-CAA row is still favouring Amit Shah with 41.7 per cent of its respondents, saying they are "very much satisfied" with the Union Home Minister
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday lashed out at JNU student Sharjeel Imam's statement and suggested that those supporting Shaheen Bagh protests should be ashamed.
Making a controversial statement, Shiv Sena in its mouthpiece Saamana said that Muslims from Pakistan, Bangladesh who have entered India should be thrown out, there is no doubt about it.
After ending his campaigning on Friday for the February 8 Delhi Assembly election, Union Home Minister Amit Shah suddenly reached a BJP worker's house to have lunch.
Ahead of Delhi Assembly polls, Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday held a roadshow in Uttam Nagar as a part of the campaign. He attacked the Kejriwal government and accused him of making false promises.
Amit Shah had challenged Opposition leaders of debate on Citizenship (Amendment) Act during a rally in Lucknow. Mayawati said she is ready to accept the challenge "on any forum".
JDU leader and political strategist Prashant Kishor has hit out at Home Minister Amit Shah and dared him to implement the Citizenship Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the same "chronology" that he "audaciously announced".
"I have come to you for a Jan Jagaran Abhiyan in Lucknow. Our government is hardly 8 months old but we are conducting this campaign to dispell the falsities being spread by the opposition against CAA. I challenged Rahul Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee, Akhilesh Yadav to enegage in a debate on CAA," Amit Shah in Lucknow.
BJP working president JP Nadda has been elected as new chief of the party, succeeding Amit Shah. The senior BJP leader was elected unopposed as party's new chief.
Top party leaders, including those from states, are likely to arrive at the BJP headquarters to file nominations in support of Nadda, who has long been seen as the choice of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah for the job.
Addressing a public meeting in support of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Vaishali, he said that this law is not meant to take away anyone's citizenship, but instead to grant citizenship to persecuted minorities.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah of misleading people on the amended Citizenship Act and the NRC.
Union Home Minister and BJP president Amit Shah during a rally in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur has said that as much as right people of India and I have over this country, so does all those Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians who have come after facing religious persecution in Pakistan, have on this country.
Amit Shah dared Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the Communists to show him any provision in the CAA, which would take away the citizenship of Muslims in the country.
Union Budget 2020-2021 will be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 as the first phase of budget session will commence from January 31 and remain effective till February 11
Two women who protested from the balcony of a Delhi apartment when Union Home Minister Amit Shah was holding an outreach programme in support of the contentious citizenship law, said they have been evicted from their house.
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