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 More"I visited the National Police Memorial and paid tributes to our martyrs of the central and state police forces who have sacrificed their lives in the line of duty. I salute their valour and courage. A grateful nation is indebted to them for their supreme sacrifice," Amit Shah tweeted.
The incumbent BJP chief, often called 'Chanakya' due to his political understanding and histrionics, took oath as a Cabinet minister at 7 pm on Thursday.
Amit Shah has been with Narendra Modi even before he became Prime Minister. After leading BJP as its President, Shah will now join PM Modi as part of his government. He took oath on Thursday (May 30).
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As per reports, the senior BJP leader, often called 'Chanakya' due to his political understanding and histrionics, will take oath as a Cabinet minister at 7 pm on Thursday.
BJP president Amit Shah on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the leaders are understood to have discussed the contours of the new government which will be sworn in on Thursday.
Party sources say Rahul Gandhi was instrumental in making Pilot as the state Congress chief in 2014. After the Assembly polls late last year, Pilot was made Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's deputy. With Congress chief himself mulling over his resignation, Pilot's future hangs in the balance, sources said.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi is learnt to have told leaders at the Congress Working Committee meeting on Saturday that he was ready to carry the ideological battle against the BJP-RSS but does not want to be bogged down by routine matters and they should chose a new party chief from outside the Nehru-Gandhi family.
"I have come to thank with folded hands the people of Kashi and Uttar Pradesh, the voters and party activists" for the BJP's sweeping victory in the Lok Sabha battle, Shah said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to meet his mother in Gandhinagar on Sunday after addressing the BJP workers and general public in Ahmedabad
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The perceived architect of Prime Minister Narendra Modis second consecutive win, Amit Shah, generated the much talked-about pro-incumbency wave with the help of eight of his close aides who worked in tandem with BJP Presidents office without break for almost two years. Many of his aides, seldom seen in the media, worked as backroom boys from the BJPs new multistoreyed headquarters located in central Delhi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after registering this historic feat, spoke at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi. He said he has vowed to serve the nation and make it even better and more prosperous in his second stint.
According to Thakur, "Every citizen has contributed to this election, whether it is the Dalit, the poor or others, who have lived a life of exploitation for the past 70 years. Because Modi has made a difference to their lives.
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BJP President Amit Shah on Thursday dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the world's "most popular" leader and credited him for party's spectacular victory in Lok Sabha polls.
Amit Shah is set to break the record margin for Gandhinagar's Lok Sabha seat.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is set for a second consecutive term as the premier of the nation, has expressed gratitude towards the people for their support and faith.
Counting of votes in the Warangal constituency has begun.
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