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Who is Amit Shah

A businessman-turned-politician and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Amit Shah has been serving as the Union home minister since the second term of the Narendra Modi-led central government. He represents Gandhinagar constituency in Lok Sabha.
 
Since 1989, Amit Shah has fought 29 elections, including various local body polls, and not lost any to this day. Shah was elected as an MLA from Gujarat’s Sarkhej in four consecutive elections — 1997 (by-election), 1998, 2002 and 2007.
 
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Shah contested from Gandhinagar, a seat previously held by BJP veteran Lal Krishna Advani and won it comprehensively.
Political career
12th pass Shah has been associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) since childhood. The 59-year-old first met Narendra Modi in 1982 through Ahmedabad RSS circles. During Narendra Modi's 12-year tenure as the Gujarat CM, Shah emerged as one of the most powerful leaders in the state. After winning the 2002 state elections, he became the youngest minister in the Modi-led Gujarat government, and was given multiple portfolios. At one time, he held 12 portfolios — home, law and justice, prison, border security, civil defence, excise, transport, prohibition, home guards, gram rakshak dal, police housing, and legislative and parliamentary affairs.
 
Known as a master strategist, Shah, along with Modi, assured BJP victories in several state elections after the BJP’s landslide Lok Sabha elections win in 2014. And, they topped up their success with a thumping victory in Lok Sabha elections 2019, in which the BJP saw its biggest individual seat tally ever, of 303. In 2024 Lok Sabha elections also the duo managed to secure a win.
 
In January 2020, Shah was succeeded as the BJP president by Jagat Prakash Nadda.

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Shah said he had suggested to Kejriwal on X that he should allow people of Delhi to take a tour of the "sheesh mahal" so that they could see what kind of home their chief minister lived in

Updated On: 04 Jan 2025 | 4:43 PM IST

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Updated On: 04 Jan 2025 | 4:26 PM IST

Before the prayer meet, the family of the former PM would also hold a 'bhog' of the 'Akhand Path' kept in the memory of Singh at their 3, Motilal Nehru Marg residence

Updated On: 02 Jan 2025 | 11:25 PM IST

On December 5, Priyanka Gandhi, along with Kerala MPs, met Union Home Minister Amit Shah to press for immediate relief measures for those affected by the landslide

Updated On: 31 Dec 2024 | 9:54 AM IST

Centre had informed the state of Kerala that the Meppadi landslide disaster in Wayanad district has been considered by the Inter-Ministerial Central Team as a disaster of 'severe nature'

Updated On: 31 Dec 2024 | 8:51 AM IST

The Good Governance Index was launched on December 25, 2019, to mark the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, observed as Good Governance Day

Updated On: 30 Dec 2024 | 6:44 PM IST

Home Minister Amit Shah, who piloted the legislations, said the new laws would give priority to providing justice, unlike the colonial-era laws that gave primacy to penal action

Updated On: 29 Dec 2024 | 1:18 PM IST

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Updated On: 29 Dec 2024 | 10:50 PM IST

Singh, who headed the Congress-led UPA government and is credited with economic reforms, passed away on Thursday at the age of 92

Updated On: 28 Dec 2024 | 7:33 AM IST

Sources said NDA leaders discussed the Congress' recent political attack on the ruling alliance and emphasised to speak in a united voice to counter fake narrative

Updated On: 25 Dec 2024 | 11:39 PM IST

In the second phase, NABARD will create 45,000 M-PACS, NDDB will establish 46,000 dairy cooperatives and NFDB 5,500 fishery cooperatives. State governments will form about 25,000 new cooperatives

Updated On: 25 Dec 2024 | 6:14 PM IST

Shah also said that the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is playing an important role in ensuring internal security and peace in the country

Updated On: 25 Dec 2024 | 2:43 PM IST

He said alerts should be generated for all the cases at predefined stages and timelines should be fixed

Updated On: 24 Dec 2024 | 2:31 PM IST

Adequate security arrangements have been put in place by the police to avoid any untoward incidents

Updated On: 24 Dec 2024 | 12:25 PM IST

The launch of the National Cooperative Database (NCD) was a milestone in the cooperative sector

Updated On: 24 Dec 2024 | 11:31 AM IST

Delivering the '37th Intelligence Bureau Centenary Endowment Lecture', Shah said a country where social unity does not exist cannot progress in any meaningful way

Updated On: 23 Dec 2024 | 10:10 PM IST

Kejriwal also slammed the BJP, saying Delhi being the national capital, its tableau should be included in the Republic Day parade every year

Updated On: 22 Dec 2024 | 9:35 PM IST

Addressing a public meeting here after visiting a village where displaced Bru tribals were rehabilitated, Shah said that Tripura remained behind on all parameters of development during communist rule

Updated On: 22 Dec 2024 | 4:45 PM IST

Venugopal said all Congress MPs, senior leaders and CWC Members will hold press conferences in their constituencies and home districts across the country on December 22-23

Updated On: 22 Dec 2024 | 6:59 AM IST

As part of the "Ambedkar Samman Saptah", Congress workers and leaders will hold marches and press conferences to remember the legacy of B R Ambedkar

Updated On: 21 Dec 2024 | 5:30 PM IST