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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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MP polls 2018: Amit Shah visits Maihar temple near Satna

Nov 19, 2018, 05:46 PM IST

On November 28, Madhya Pradesh will have a single phase polling for its 230-member assembly. The counting of votes will take place on December 11.

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Opposition, suffering from 'Modi-phobia', only wants PM off his post: Amit Shah in Madhya Pradesh

Nov 19, 2018, 02:48 PM IST

Shah also asked the Congress to give an account of what the four generations of the Nehru-Gandhi family did when they ruled the country.

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MP Polls | Cong party is ATM of false promises, BJP of growth and development: Amit Shah

Nov 18, 2018, 05:59 PM IST

The state is all set to go for polls on November 28. Counting of votes will take place on December 11.

Top BJP leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi,

MP Polls: High-voltage campaign, war of words likely as PM Modi, Amit Shah to hit campaign trail today

Nov 18, 2018, 09:02 AM IST

Elections to the 230 assembly constituencies in the state will be held on November 28.

BJP president Amit Shah, MP polls 2018

I want to ask from Congress party, who is their leader in Madhya Pradesh?: BJP president Amit Shah

Nov 15, 2018, 09:26 PM IST

Madhya Pradesh elections 2018: "These people neither have a leader nor a policy for the state,” Shah said.

RLSP chief Upendra Kushwaha 

Upendra Kushwaha to apprise BJP chief of his woes in Bihar

India | Nov 11, 2018, 09:29 PM IST

  Kushwaha said he would also request Shah to clear the "confusion" over seat-sharing among the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituents in the state at the earliest.

Amit Shah, Raman Singh  release BJP manifesto

Chhattisgarh Polls: Amit Shah releases BJP manifesto, says 'Maoist-sympathiser' Cong can never do welfare of state

Nov 10, 2018, 07:14 PM IST

After releasing the manifesto, the BJP chief launched a scathing attack on Congress and said that a party that sees revolution in Naxalism can do no good for Chhattisgarh.

Asaduddin Owaisi

Amit Shah wants Muslim-free India, says Asaduddin Owaisi in Hyderabad

India | Nov 08, 2018, 05:31 PM IST

Owaisi hitting out at Shah for his remarks promising to rid Hyderabad of Majlis, said Shah wanted annihilation of Muslims.

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INS Arihant completing its first deterrence patrol a historic feat: Shah

India | Nov 05, 2018, 10:06 PM IST

Noting that the feat was achieved on "Dhanteras", which is about wellbeing, Shah said, "In that spirit, our armed forces give India the historic feat of our nuclear submarine, INS Arihant, completing its first deterrence patrol."  

Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP)

Upendra Kushwaha demands respectable number of seats from BJP to fight in Bihar; holds talks with Paswan

Politics | Oct 30, 2018, 10:26 PM IST

The BJP, the LJP and the RLSP had contested 30, seven and three seats of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar in 2014 and won 22, six and three of them respectively.

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Former ISRO chief Madhavan Nair joins BJP in presence of party president Amit Shah in Trivandrum

India | Oct 28, 2018, 02:28 PM IST

Amit Shah welcomed Nair by felicitating him with a shawl.

BJP President Amit Shah arrives at the Kannur Airport on

Sabarimala Row: BJP Chief Amit Shah backs protests by devotees, slams LDF govt over arrests of demonstrators

India | Oct 27, 2018, 06:46 PM IST

Addressing party workers after inaugurating the district BJP office in Kannur, Shah said the state government was using police force to challenge the protest by devotees.

The meeting between the two leaders raised several

Tejashwi-Kushwaha meeting raises eyebrows after BJP-JDU announce '50-50' seat sharing formula for 2019 LS polls

Oct 26, 2018, 09:26 PM IST

BJP president Amit Shah and JDU chief Nitish Kumar held a meeting in New Delhi on Friday to decide the seat sharing formula for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

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Amit Shah in Lucknow to fine tune Lok Sabha poll preparedness

Oct 25, 2018, 10:38 AM IST

The BJP has lost successive bypolls for the Lok Sabha and the state Lok Sabha elections 2019: Assembly to candidates jointly put up by arch rivals Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party.

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Seoul Peace Prize to PM is recognition of 'Modinomics': Amit Shah

India | Oct 24, 2018, 05:04 PM IST

Describing the award as a "matter of great joy" and "immense pride for 130 crore Indians", the BJP chief said Modi's efforts towards boosting global cooperation and raising global economic growth have been noted by the awarding committee.  

BJP says ‘committed to coalition dharma’

Goa: After Cabral's swipe at Sardesai, BJP says ‘committed to coalition dharma’

India | Oct 20, 2018, 11:44 PM IST

A statement issued by Goa BJP chief Vinay Tendulkar said, "BJP is fully committed to coalition dharma and mutual trust and respect for constituent parties."

Amit Shah pushes BJP workers ahead of Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections 2018

Madhya Pradesh Elections: Aim to win 200-plus seats, Amit Shah tells BJP workers

Oct 15, 2018, 11:38 AM IST

"This tsunami would cover the entire country, including West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Kerala," Shah said.

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In MP, Amit Shah mocks Manmohan Singh, says ex-PM read papers handed over by Sonia Gandhi

Oct 25, 2018, 07:44 PM IST

Taking a dig at Manmohan Singh for slamming PM Narendra Modi over his frequent foreign tours, Amit Shah said that the former PM had actually taken more international trips than Modi.

Amit Shah slams opposition parties in MP

After India deports 7 Rohingyas, Amit Shah says ‘not a single intruder will be allowed in country’

India | Oct 06, 2018, 07:26 PM IST

The opposition parties support the intruders for political gains but for the BJP the country comes first, the BJP president said.

Amit Shah attacks Congress in Chhattisgarh

Congress forged ties with Naxals to stay in power in Chhattisgarh: Amit Shah

Politics | Oct 05, 2018, 07:00 PM IST

"Atalji (then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee) founded the state and Raman Singh developed it," he said.