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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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Bengal Polls 2021: Amit Shah holds 4 roadshows in Bengal, predicts massive victory for BJP

Politics | Apr 07, 2021, 11:20 PM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a series of colourful road shows on Wednesday, promising rapid industrialisation if BJP is voted to power and predicted a massive victory for his party.

I pay tributes to security personnel who lost their lives in Naxal attack: Amit Shah

News | Apr 05, 2021, 01:40 PM IST

Once again, I pay tributes to the security personnel who lost their lives in the Naxal attack. The country will always remember their sacrifice for taking the fight against Naxals to a decisive turn: Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Jagdalpur

Chhattisgarh: Amit Shah, Bhupesh Baghel hold meeting with top officials in Jagdalpur

News | Apr 05, 2021, 01:00 PM IST

Chhattisgarh: Union Home Minister Amit Shah and CM Bhupesh Baghel hold a meeting with top officials in Jagdalpur, over the naxal attack in which 14 security personnel lost their lives.

Amit Shah attends wreath-laying ceremony of security personnel martyred in the Naxal attack, in Jagdalpur

News | Apr 05, 2021, 11:29 AM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Monday lay wreath at the coffins of 14 security personnel who lost their lives in the Naxal attack, in Jagdalpur. After attending wreath-laying ceremony for 14 jawans who died in the Chhattisgarh Naxal attack, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will hold a meeting with top officials in Jagdalpur & later meet injured jawans & visit CRPF camp.

Amit Shah cuts short election campaign, returns to Delhi after Bijapur Naxal attack

News | Apr 04, 2021, 05:20 PM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said a befitting reply will be given to the Naxal attack in Chhatisgarh at an appropriate time. He also said search operations are continuing in Chhattisgarh following the encounter.

Stalin only wants to make his son CM: Amit Shah

News | Apr 03, 2021, 06:40 PM IST

Ahead of upcoming Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Union Home Minister Amit Shah attended a public meeting at Tirunelveli on April 3 and said that people have to decide whether they want to go with those who think about the state or those who want to make their son as CM.

Debar PM Modi, Amit Shah, urges Congress amid ban over Himanta Biswa's campaign

News | Apr 03, 2021, 02:51 PM IST

BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma was barred from campaigning for 48 hours by the election commission over his alleged threat to the chairman of Bodoland People's Front, who is a Congress alliance partner in the state.

State's development is possible only if we defeat dynastic, corrupt DMK-Congress: Amit Shah

Elections | Apr 03, 2021, 02:49 PM IST

Home Minister Amit Shah held a roadshow in Thousand Lights assembly constituency, wherein he campaigned for the party's candidate Khushbu Sundar on April 03.

'Tolabaji, Tanashahi, Tushtikaran': Home Minister Amit Shah attacks Mamata Banerjee

Hakikat Kya Hai | Apr 02, 2021, 09:51 PM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday lashed out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of running the TMC government in the state on the 3T model of 'Tolabaji' (extortion), 'Tanashahi' (dictatorship) and 'Tushtikaran' (appeasement).

Chunav Dhamaka | BJP will win 50 of 60 seats in first 2 phases of Bengal polls: Amit Shah

News | Apr 02, 2021, 08:41 PM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that BJP will win more than 50 out of 60 seats where polling was held in the first two phases of West Bengal Assembly polls. Polling for 30 seats each was held in two phases, first on March 27 and second on April1.

Aaj Ki Baat: Why Mamata Banerjee revealed her Shandilya gotra

Aaj Ki Baat | Mar 31, 2021, 10:54 PM IST

Why Mamata Banerjee revealed her Shandilya gotra? How Giriraj Singh reacted? Why Mamata Banerjee alleged EC is working at the behest of BJP in Bengal? How Amit Shah lashed out at AIUDF leader Badruddin Ajmal in Assam? Watch this and more on Aaj Ki Baat with Rajat Sharma.

Chunav Dhamaka: Won't allow Assam to become infiltrators hub again, Amit Shah slams Badruddin Ajmal

News | Mar 31, 2021, 08:44 PM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday accused Congress and AIUDF of hankering for power in Assam to open the borders for infiltrators and said emphatically that BJP will not allow the state to become a hub for illegal immigrants again after freeing the land encroached by them during last five years.

Chunav 50| Giriraj Singh, Owaisi slam TMC supremo over 'Gotra' remarks

Politics | Mar 31, 2021, 12:32 PM IST

Giriraj Singh has hit back at TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee over her 'gotra' remark made in Nandigram just ahead of the polling.

This is our country's culture: Chandrakant Patil on Amit Shah-Sharad Pawar meeting

News | Mar 30, 2021, 09:40 PM IST

While speaking to media in Pune, Maharashtra's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Chandrakant Patil said, "Such meetings take place at this level.

Entire Bengal doesn't want infiltration but wants implementation of CAA: Amit Shah in Nandigram

Politics | Mar 30, 2021, 03:20 PM IST

Looking at the enthusiasm among the people of Nandigram, it is clear that Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate Suvendu Adhikari is going to win from here. The easiest way to bring 'parivartan' is to make sure Mamata Didi loses from Nandigram: Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah

Mamata Banerjee and Amit Shah hold a roadshow in Nandigram; Mithun Chakraborty in Kharagpur

Politics | Mar 30, 2021, 02:20 PM IST

While Mamata Banerjee and Amit Shah hold a roadshow in Nandigram, Bharatiya Janata Party's Mithun Chakraborty campaigned for actor Hiran Chatterjee, the party's candidate from the Kharagpur Sadar assembly seat.

Bengal Polls 2021: Amit Shah, Mamata Banerjee hold roadshows in Nandigram

Politics | Mar 30, 2021, 01:30 PM IST

Union Home Minister & BJP leader Amit Shah holds a roadshow in Nandigram, the Assembly constituency where BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari is contesting against CM & TMC chief Mamata Banerjee.

BJP will form government in West Bengal with more than 200 seats: Amit Shah

Elections | Mar 28, 2021, 03:05 PM IST

Yesterday, after many years, the polling process was held without any incident of violence in West Bengal. I want to thank the women of West Bengal for polling in favour of the BJP. BJP will form government in West Bengal with more than 200 seats: Union Home Minister Amit Shah

'Didi' wants elections as means to make her nephew the next CM: Amit Shah

News | Mar 25, 2021, 05:00 PM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah continued to train guns at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew, TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee.

Bengal Polls 2021: Amit Shah talks about 'Rural Advancement Mission' in Gosaba rally

Politics | Mar 23, 2021, 01:40 PM IST

Amit Shah addressed a rally in Gosab on Tuesday. During his address, the Union Home Minister talked about BJP's Rural Advancement Mission in Bengal.

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