Amit Shah | |
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| 32nd Union Minister of Home Affairs | |
| Assumed office 30 May 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | Rajnath Singh |
| 1st Union Minister of Cooperation | |
| Assumed office 7 July 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | office established |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| Assumed office 23 May 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Lal Krishna Advani |
| Constituency | Gandhinagar, Gujarat |
| Majority | 744,716 (56.34%) |
| Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
| In office 19 August 2017 – 29 May 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Dilip Pandya |
| Succeeded by | Subrahmanyam Jaishankar |
| Constituency | Gujarat |
| 3rd Chairperson of National Democratic Alliance | |
| Assumed office 9 July 2014 | |
| National President |
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| Preceded by | L. K. Advani |
| 10th National President of Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| In office 9 July 2014 – 20 January 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Rajnath Singh |
| Succeeded by | Jagat Prakash Nadda |
| Member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 2012–2017 | |
| Preceded by | constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Kaushik Patel |
| Constituency | Naranpura |
| In office 1997–2012 | |
| Preceded by | Harishchandra Lavjibhai Patel |
| Succeeded by | constituency abolished |
| Constituency | Sarkhej |
| Minister of State, Government of Gujarat | |
| In office 2002–2012 | |
| Departments | Home, Law and Justice, Prison, Border Security, Civil Defence, Excise, Home Guards, Transport, Prohibition, Gram Rakshak Dal, Police Housing, Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs |
| Chief Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Amit Anil Chandra Shah 22 October 1964[1] Bombay, Maharashtra, India (present-day Mumbai) |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Other political affiliations | National Democratic Alliance |
| Spouse |
Sonal Shah (m. 1987) |
| Children | Jay Shah (son) |
| Residence(s) | 6A, Krishna Menon Marg, New Delhi, Delhi, India |
| Alma mater | Gujarat University |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Website | www |
Amitbhai Anilchandra Shah[2] (born 22 October 1964) is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the 32nd Minister of Home Affairs since May 2019 and the 1st Minister of Co-operation since July 2021. He is also the member of parliament (MP) for Gandhinagar. He served as the 10th president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2020. He has also served as chairman of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) since 2014. He had been elected as a member of the upper house of parliament, Rajya Sabha, from Gujarat from 2017 to 2019.
A chief strategist of the BJP, he is a close aide to Narendra Modi.[3][4] He was also the member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from Naranpura from 2012 to 2017 and Sarkhej from 1997 to 2012 and 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, government of Gujarat in the Modi ministry from 2002 to 2012. During his college days, Shah was a member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). At the age of 18, he secured a position in the ABVP and joined the BJP in 1987.
Shah was the BJP's in-charge for India's largest and politically most crucial state, Uttar Pradesh, during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The BJP-led NDA won 73 out of 80 seats. As a result, Shah rose to national prominence and was appointed as the party's national president in July 2014.[5] He has played an organising and membership-promotional role in the elections of many states since 2014. In his initial two years, the BJP achieved success in legislative assembly elections in Maharashtra, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand and Assam but lost ground in Delhi and the large eastern state of Bihar in 2015.
In 2017, he was partly credited with the party victories in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Gujarat[6] and Manipur, but the Akali-BJP alliance lost power in the larger Punjab election.[7] In 2018, the party lost power in the states of Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. A year later, the BJP won 303 seats to get a majority in the 2019 Indian general election under Shah's leadership.[8]
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- ^ "Amit Shah: BJP's 'Chanakya' who delivered Modi Wave 2.0". The Times of India. 23 May 2019. Archived from the original on 20 August 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ "Amit Shah: BJP's Chanakya who strategised and delivered Modi wave 2.0". India Today. 23 May 2019. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ "Inside the mind of Amit Shah: All eyes on new BJP chief as party gears up for battle in five states". India Today. 17 July 2014. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
- ^ The Hindu Net Desk (18 December 2017). "Gujarat Assembly election results: Counting ends as BJP closes out Gujarat with 99 seats; Congress claims 77". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- ^ "Punjab Election Result 2017: Congress' Amarinder Singh Defeats Akali Dal-BJP, AAP – Highlights". NDTV.com. Archived from the original on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- ^ "Amit Shah in new role after being most successful BJP chief". The Economic Times. 30 May 2019. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 1 June 2019.