Amit Shah

Amit Shah
Shah in 2023
34th Minister of Home Affairs
Assumed office
30 May 2019 (2019-05-30)
Prime MinisterNarendra Modi
Preceded byRajnath Singh
1st Minister of Co-operation
Assumed office
7 July 2021 (2021-07-07)
Prime MinisterNarendra Modi
Preceded byoffice established
3rd Chairperson of the National Democratic Alliance
Assumed office
9 July 2014 (2014-07-09)
Preceded byL. K. Advani
10th President of the Bharatiya Janata Party
In office
9 July 2014 (2014-07-09) – 20 January 2020 (2020-01-20)
Preceded byRajnath Singh
Succeeded byJagat Prakash Nadda
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Assumed office
23 May 2019 (2019-05-23)
Preceded byL. K. Advani
ConstituencyGandhinagar, Gujarat
Majority557,014 (43.38%)
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
19 August 2017 (2017-08-19) – 29 May 2019 (2019-05-29)
Preceded byDilip Pandya
Succeeded bySubrahmanyam Jaishankar
ConstituencyGujarat
Member of Gujarat Legislative Assembly
In office
2012 (2012)–2017 (2017)
Preceded byoffice established
Succeeded byKaushik Patel
ConstituencyNaranpura
In office
1997 (1997)–2012 (2012)
Preceded byHarishchandra Lavjibhai Patel
Succeeded byoffice abolished
ConstituencySarkhej
Minister of State, Government of Gujarat
In office
2002 (2002)–2012 (2012)
DepartmentsHome, Law and Justice, Prison, Border Security, Civil Defence, Excise, Home Guards, Transport, Prohibition, Gram Rakshak Dal, Police Housing, Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs
Chief MinisterNarendra Modi
Personal details
Born
Amit Anil Chandra Shah

(1964-10-22) 22 October 1964 (age 59)[1]
Bombay (present-day Mumbai), Maharashtra, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Other political
affiliations
National Democratic Alliance
Spouse
Sonal Shah
(m. 1987)
ChildrenJay Shah (son)
Residence(s)New Delhi, Delhi, India
Alma materGujarat University
(BSc)
OccupationPolitician
Websitewww.amitshah.co.in

Amit Anil Chandra Shah (born 22 October 1964) is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the 31st Minister of Home Affairs since 2019 and the 1st Minister of Co-operation of India since 2021. 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 was elected to the lower house of Parliament, Lok Sabha, in the 2019 Indian general elections from Gandhinagar. Earlier, 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.[2][3] 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.[4] 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[5] and Manipur, but the Akali-BJP alliance lost power in the larger Punjab election.[6] 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.[7]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference IE_2014_prepares was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Amit Shah: BJP's 'Chanakya' who delivered Modi Wave 2.0". The Times of India. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Amit Shah: BJP's Chanakya who strategised and delivered Modi wave 2.0". India Today. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ 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. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  6. ^ "Punjab Election Result 2017: Congress' Amarinder Singh Defeats Akali Dal-BJP, AAP – Highlights". NDTV.com. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  7. ^ "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.

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