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.

National President, BJP 2014. Acknowledging Shri Amit Shah’s capability and commitment towards the party's ideology, the senior party leaders appointed him as the BJP's National President in July 2014. Just 49 year old Amit Shah became the youngest President of the party.

Jan 25, 2025 · Amit Shah (born October 22, 1964, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India) is an Indian politician and one of the most prominent leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has served as the central government minister for home affairs since 2019 and the minister of cooperation since 2021.

In Amit Shah who dedicated four decades of his life to its service, the BJP found one. His meteoric rise from being a booth karyakarta in the arid plains of Gujarat to the highest echelons of power as the Union Minister of Home - is a gripping tale in itself.

Amit Shah represents the emerging New India in every sense of the term. Leading the Party from the front for the last five years, he has been remarkably successful in expanding BJP’s organisational foot print, securing one electoral victory after the other in State assembly elections.

May 3, 2024 · Critics say he is the driving force behind some of India's most controversial legislation, including scrapping Kashmir's partial autonomy - which had been a BJP manifesto pledge for...

6 days ago · Amit Shah was born to Smt. Kusumben and Shri Anilchandra Shah, an affluent Gujarati family in the year 1964 in Mumbai. He lived and studied in his paternal village Mansa, Gujarat until the age of 16, when upon completion of his school education, his family shifted to …

May 17, 2024 · Home Minister Amit Shah is a polarising figure, often called India’s second most powerful man. He’s been central to the rise of the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

In less than one year of taking over as BJP’s National President, Amit Bhai travelled to each and every state in the country to push the party’s ideology and enlarge party membership. The results of this drive were startling.

Shri Amit Shah went on to hold many crucial posts to rise up in the ranks of the Gujarat unit of BJP. He became the national treasurer of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (B.J.YM.) in 1997 and later the Vice President of the Gujarat State unit of the BJP.