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 MoreIn an address to "social media warriors", including party workers and supporters, of the BJP, Shah also asked them to highlight the achievements of the four years of the Modi government.
The Congress has made it clear that it will not join hands with PDP to form an alliance.
Shah will pay tributes to BJP ideologue Shyama Prasad Mukherjee at a memorial in Punjab's Lakhanpur area on June 23, he said.
Sounding the bugle for the year-end elections in Chhattisgarh, Shah questioned Gandhi for seeking an account of the work done by the BJP-led government at the Centre in the last four years.
According to the schedule, Shah will reach Darima airstrip in Ambikpur by a special plane at around 11:45 am tomorrow.
On Wednesday, Amit Shah had met Bollywood star Madhuri Dixit and veteran industrialist Rata Tata in Mumbai. Shah met Madhuri and Ratan Tata to share Modi government's achievements during the last four years.
During the poll campaign, the Shiv Sena repeatedly attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After facing defeat in the Palghar bypoll at the hands of the BJP, the Shiv Sena labelled the ally party as its “biggest political enemy”.
"I also requested him to meet me next time he visits Mumbai," Lata Mangeshkar said.
According to the BJP, the meeting was in connection with its Sampark for Samarthan (contact for support) campaign being led by the party president in the run-up to next year’s Lok Sabha polls.
According to the BJP, the meeting was in connection with its Sampark for Samarthan (contact for support) campaign being led by the BJP president in the run up to next year’s Lok Sabha polls.
The BJP launched a mega public drive, Sampark for Samarthan, following the Modi government's fourth anniversary on May 26.
Questioning the motives of Amit Shah's meeting with NDA allies after consecutive poll losses, Shiv Sena mouthpiece clarified that the party is determined to fight 2019 Lok Sabha polls alone.
BJP chief Amit Shah has been meeting with several social and political bigwigs to reinvigorate public support for BJP ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
The tomorrow's meeting between Shah and Thackeray is being viewed as significant as it comes days after the two bickering allies contested the Palghar bypolls separately.
"We have zero tolerance for national security. The maximum number of militants have been killed in the state in last four years of our government. War with Pakistan is the last option," Amit Shah said.
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi as part of 4-year anniversary celebrations of the Modi government, Amit Shah said that politics of performance was at the core of BJP's policies
"On this day in 2014, we began our journey of working towards India’s transformation. Over the last four years, development has become a vibrant mass movement, with every citizen feeling involved in India's growth trajectory. 125 crore Indians are taking India to great heights!," he tweeted on Saturday.
The BJP chief said it did not want to give up its alliance with old time ally Shiv Sena in Maharashtra but insisted that the BJP would have no option if the Sena wanted to part ways with it.
Amid the “crisis situation” created by rising fuel prices, BJP President Amit Shah on Tuesday said that the Centre taking the issue of oil prices seriously, and that it is working out on a formula to reduce the rates.
Addressing his first press conference after BS Yeddyurappa resigned before floor test last week, Amit Shah said the Congress has found a new way of portraying defeat as its victory.
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