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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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Citizenship Bill

Citizenship Bill will allow dignity to minorities from Pak, Bangladesh, Afghanistan: Shah

India | Dec 10, 2019, 06:56 AM IST

The Lok Sabha passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, which seeks to provide Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees coming from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan after facing religious persecution there, a little past midnight on Monday after a heated debate that lasted over seven hours.

Amit Shah quips at Congress in Lok Sabha

'Such a secular party...Muslim league in Kerala, Sena in Maharashtra': Shah pokes fun at Congress

Politics | Dec 09, 2019, 11:34 PM IST

Congress is such a secular party that it partnered with the Muslim League in Kerala and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, Shah quipped in a late-night discussion on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the lower house.

Citizenship Amendment Bill: What Amit Shah said in Lok

Citizenship Amendment Bill: What Amit Shah said in Lok Sabha | Top Quotes

Politics | Dec 09, 2019, 11:23 PM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah responded to the debate on Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha late Monday night. He said the bill is naither unconstitutional nor it violates Article 14.

Shah to introduce Citizenship Amendment Bill in Lok Sabha

Shah to introduce Citizenship Amendment Bill in Lok Sabha today

Politics | Dec 09, 2019, 10:33 AM IST

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan escaping religious persecution there.

Amit Shah holds meet on onion prices

Amit Shah holds meet on onion prices

India | Dec 05, 2019, 09:30 PM IST

The home minister reviewed the progress made in the decisions taken in the last meeting with respect to facilitating speedy import of onion that would help improve availability and cool prices.

Country in trouble as Modi, Shah live in 'imaginary' world: Rahul

Country in trouble as Modi, Shah live in 'imaginary' world: Rahul

India | Dec 05, 2019, 12:33 PM IST

Mr Amit Shah and Mr Narendra Modi live in their own imagination. They have no contact with the outside world. They live in their own world and they fantasise about things. That is why the country is in such trouble

Amit Shah in Rajya Sabha

Rajya Sabha passes bill to amend SPG Act: Shah rejects charge of political vendetta, Cong walks out

Politics | Dec 03, 2019, 11:56 PM IST

​The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed a bill to amend the Act governing the elite-Special Protection Group (SPG) with Home Minister Amit Shah rejecting the opposition's charge of political vendetta and asserting the government was concerned about security of all 130 crore Indians and not just the Gandhi family.

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Amit Shah sets 2024 deadline for NRC, attacks Rahul Gandhi

Dec 02, 2019, 05:33 PM IST

​BJP chief Amit Shah on Monday set a 2024 deadline for implementing the hugely divisive NRC across the country, asserting "each and every" infiltrator will be identified and expelled before the next general election. 

Amit Shah hopes India would become $5 trillion economy by 2024

India to become $5 trillion economy by 2024: Amit Shah

India | Nov 30, 2019, 11:33 PM IST

Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday expressed hope that by 2024, India would become USD 5 trillion economy and be placed among the top five global economies. 

Maoists have been wiped out from Jharkhand: Shah

Maoists have been wiped out from Jharkhand: Amit Shah

Nov 28, 2019, 04:30 PM IST

He said: "Lots of work have been done in the state. Industries have been set up, electricity has reached houses, roads have been constructed, toilets have been built. BJP government gave respect to women who had to go to fields to relieve themselves. Rahul Baba will not understand these things as he was not born in a poor family.

Vajpayee govt created Jharkhand, Modi taking it forward: Amit Shah in Jharkhand

Vajpayee govt created Jharkhand, Modi taking it forward: Amit Shah in Jharkhand

India | Nov 28, 2019, 02:16 PM IST

He said the JMM, Congress and the RJD are fighting the state Assembly election in an alliance. "I would like to ask Hemant Babu (Soren) what was the stand of Congress when youth of Jharkhand were fighting for a separate state."

SPG is necessary for the protection of PM, amendment bill

SPG is necessary for the protection of PM, amendment bill will make the force stronger: Amit Shah

India | Nov 27, 2019, 04:55 PM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that the Special Protection Group(SPG) is necessary for the security of the Prime Minister of the country and that the amendment bill would make the force stronger. Amit Shah on Wednesday said the purpose of the amendment in the Special Protection Group (SPG) Amendment Bill, 2019 is to enhance the efficiency of the elite black cat commandos.

Decision of Fadnavis' resignation taken during Modi-Shah

Decision of Fadnavis' resignation taken during Modi-Shah meeting

Politics | Nov 27, 2019, 09:15 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah and party Executive President J.P. Nadda in a meeting on Tuesday decided to ask Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to put his resignation.

Chandrababu Naidu thanks PM Modi, Amit Shah for correction in Andhra map

Chandrababu Naidu thanks PM Modi, Amit Shah for correction in Andhra Pradesh map

India | Nov 24, 2019, 12:50 PM IST

The Telugu Desam Party's (TDP) national President, who had used some harsh words in attacking Modi-Shah during the election campaign, addressed a letter to Amit Shah, who is also the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

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OPINION | How Amit Shah outsmarted Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray

Nov 23, 2019, 02:40 PM IST

​Anything is possible in love, war and politics. On Friday night, the Shiv Sena camp was elated after NCP supremo Sharad Pawar declared that Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray would head a coalition government for the next five years.   

PM Modi, Amit Shah deliver on their promise to make Fadnavis CM

PM Modi, Amit Shah deliver on their promise to make Fadnavis CM

Politics | Nov 23, 2019, 12:57 PM IST

The Prime Minister had made it clear that Devendra Fadnavis was again going to be the Chief Minister. Fadnavis's name was also endorsed in the parliamentary board meeting held late that same day.

Amit Shah: The undisputed 'Chanakya' of Indian Politics

Amit Shah: The undisputed 'Chanakya' of Indian Politics

Politics | Nov 23, 2019, 12:33 PM IST

As Saturday morning brought surprise and amazement to many with a 180-degree-turnaround in the Maharashtra politics, it once again reinforced the fact that Amit Anilchandra Shah is the undisputed 'Chanakya', when it comes to Indian politics.

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NRC to be carried out across India, Shah tells Rajya Sabha; Mamata says 'won't allow'

Politics | Nov 20, 2019, 03:44 PM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday told the Rajya Sabha that the NRC process would be carried out across India. He made it clear that there would be no discrimination on the basis of religion.

Internet to be restored as per local administration's will: Amit Shah on Kashmir situation

Internet in Jammu and Kashmir to resume on local administration feedback: Amit Shah

India | Nov 20, 2019, 02:17 PM IST

Addressing the Rajya Sabha over the present situation in Jammu and Kashmir, Home Minister Amit Shah also said all newspapers and TV channels are functioning in Kashmir and there is no decline in the circulation of newspapers.

Shah remembers Ayodhya Ram temple movement leader Ashok Singhal

Amit Shah remembers Ayodhya Ram temple movement leader Ashok Singhal

India | Nov 17, 2019, 02:38 PM IST

Shah said Singhal served the country and religion as a monk for all his life, despite coming from a very rich family, renouncing all happiness and splendour "His struggle for Ram Janmabhoomi and Ram Sethu movement and awakening the religion was commendable. I pay tribute to him on his death anniversary," he said in a tweet

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