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Amit Shah is a prominent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader currently serving as the Home Minister of India. He is also the first Minister of Cooperation of India. Joined BJP in 1987, Shah referred to as the 'Chanakya' of modern Indian politics and often credited with making the BJP a formidable election machine. It was under his presidency, the party emerged victorious in several state elections besides the party's landslide Lok Sabha elections win in 2014 and 2019. National president of BJP from 2014 to 2020, Shah is often considered as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's right-hand man. He first met Modi in 1982 through Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) circles, the Hindu nationalist organisation he has been associated with since childhood. When Modi was serving as the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shah emerged as a powerful leader in the state. In his political stint under the Modi-led Gujarat government, he became the youngest minister and handled multiple portfolios at the same time. At one time, he held as many as 12 portfolios, including home, law and justice, border security, and legislative and parliamentary affairs among others. Besides BJP’s victories, Amit Shah has also added a milestone in his political career with winning every election he fought. Since 1989, the politician has fought 29 elections and has won them all. He was elected as an MLA from Gujarat’s Sarkhej in four consecutive elections between 1997 and 2007. He was elected as a member of the upper house of Parliament -- Rajya Sabha -- from Gujarat in 2017. In the 2019 general elections, he contested and was elected to the lower house of Parliament -- Lok Sabha -- from Gandhinagar, a seat previously held by BJP veteran leader Lal Krishna Advani. In the polls, he gained 69.67 percent of the total votes cast in the constituency and defeated his nearest rival Dr CJ Chavda of the Indian National Congress by a margin of 557,014 votes. Later, he was appointed as the Home Minister of the country in PM Modi’s second term. Sworn in at the age of 54, Amit Shah is the youngest serving full-time Home Minister the country has seen. In the first major action after taking up the role, Shah moved a resolution to scrap Article 370 in the Rajya Sabha in August 2019 and divide the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories with Jammu and Kashmir serving as one of the UT and Ladakh as a separate UT. He later declared implementation of National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Rajya Sabha and introduced the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. In his college days, Shah was a member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the RSS. He has also served as chairman of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) since 2014. More
According to him, regions under communist rule have lagged in development. He also alleged that, in the name of tribal welfare, people were pushed towards armed activity, calling the ideology destructive in nature.
Amit Shah also said the agreement is expected to give a strong boost to bilateral business ties, noting that trade between India and the United States is set to flourish further.
"Some people raised slogans in Delhi saying they would cut off the 'Chicken's Neck'. Why, brother, how will you cut it? Is this your father's land? This is India's land; no one can lay a hand on it," Shah said.
Paying homage to the workers who lost their lives, Amit Shah questioned the circumstances under which the facility was operating and the conduct of authorities in the aftermath.
Addressing the BJP Karyakarta Sammelan in North 24 Parganas, Shah criticised the Mamata government over the deteriorating law and order situation.
Shah, who was originally scheduled to come at 8:10 pm from Guwahati, had to attend a crucial late evening BJP meeting in Assam before boarding the flight for Kolkata, causing a one-hour delay, another party source said.
Shah unveiled the projects in the presence of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal, MPs and MLAs of the upper Assam constituencies, several state cabinet ministers and senior government officials
In a post on X, Amit Shah said the verdict reflected people’s confidence in governance focused on welfare and growth, and thanked voters across the state for their backing.
Amit Shah said the BJP had envisioned a developed Kerala and that the state was endowed with immense potential.
During a recent visit, Union Home Minister Amit Shah reportedly asked Dilip Ghosh to step up his engagement, fuelling expectations of a formal organisational role.
The case was registered after a complaint from JNU's chief security officer was received at the Vasant Kunj North police station on Tuesday.
Typhoid cases have been increasing in the Civil Hospital in the last three days, with 104 patients admitted to the paediatric ward, officials said.
The Home Minister asked for the end of factionalism within the party and brought Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly, and Dilip Ghosh, the former state president of the party, together, although they were purported to be at loggerheads.
Speaking to the press in Kolkata, Shah continued his tirade against the Mamata Banerjee government, saying that TMC does not address the issue as it benefits them electorally. "Mamata Banerjee abetting infiltration of Bangladeshis for electoral benefit," Shah said in Kolkata.
Shah instructed the party workers to work on every front — campaigns, protests, and programmes — and stated that there must be “tight and aggressive mobilisation".
Shah quipped that it was beyond his capacity to make "Rahul baba" understand this “simple logic” because even Congress leaders had failed to make him understand it.
'We have made a strong entry into the semiconductor industry, although a bit late. In no time, we will not only become self-reliant in the semiconductor sector, but will also start exporting it', said Amit Shah
The Union minister also highlighted Haryana’s contribution to the country, particularly in agriculture, dairy production and sports
Amit Shah appealed to those who are still associated with outlawed CPI (Maoists) to lay down arms and join the mainstream of society.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said that she herself had not filled out SIR enumeration form so far.
Rahul Gandhi's remarks came a day after his face-off with Amit Shah during the latter's address in Lok Sabha on electoral reforms on Tuesday.
The debate on the SIR in Lok Sabha on Wednesday saw Amit Shah flip the “vote chori” allegation back on the Congress, invoking three contentious episodes from its own history.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah also raised the issue of a case in a civil court in Delhi against Congress MP Sonia Gandhi that claimed she became a voter in India before she became a citizen.
Home Minister Shah attacked Congress for questioning the need for a debate on Vande Mataram, and accused first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru of "dividing" the poem and limiting it to merely two stanzas.
He said the Centre has strengthened the security grid in the last seven years by constructing 586 fortified police stations.
