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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BJP bagged all 26 seats in the state of Gujarat. Amit Shah wins by a massive margin of 5.5 lakh votes. Here is the full list of all the winning candidates from Gujarat.
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.
Pragya Thakur defeated Congress' Digvijay Singh by about 3 lakh votes in Bhopal.
CR Patil of BJP has created a record by defeating his nearest rival Patel Dharmeshbhai Bhimbhai (Congress) by margin of 6.89 lakh votes in Gujarat's Navsari Lok Sabha seat. Here's a look at the biggest winners of Lok Sabha Election 2019. PM Modi features at the 5th spot with a win-margin of 4.8 lakh votes.
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.
Nizamabad Lok Sabha Constituency result: Counting of votes has begun in the Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency. K Kavitha has taken an early lead.
Counting has begun in the Karimnagar Lok Sabha constituency.
The BJP was confident of victory, while the Congress hoped for a better performance. The home turf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah gave their party all the 26 seats in 2014 when 64.7 per cent voters had exercised their franchise.
Counting of votes in the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency has begun. Asaduddin Owaisi has taken an early lead.
BJP President Amit Shah has won the Gandhinagar constituency of Gujrat by 5.7 lakh votes defeating Dr C J Chavda of the Indian National Congress.
Rejecting the demand of Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa, the 'full commission' Tuesday ruled that dissents and minority views in EC orders in cases of model code violations would not be made public.
Infuriated over his sacking, controversial Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar on Monday alleged that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath succumbed to the powerful liquor lobby and did not implement prohibition in the state.
Most exit polls Sunday forecast another term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with some of them projecting that BJP-led NDA will get more than 300 seats to comfortably cross the majority mark of 272 in the Lok Sabha.
The EC should ensure that Sunday's polling is held without the "undue interference of the central government" and any "intervention by the ruling party at the Centre", Banerjee, West Bengal chief minister said in the letter written on her official letterhead.
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