Amit Shah (Born on 22 October 1964, Maharashtra, India) is an Indian politician and currently the Home Minister of India. He is the ex-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from January 9, 2014, to January 20, 2020.
He was elected to the lower house of Parliament, in the 2019 Lok Sabha, Indian general elections from the Gandhi Nagar constituency. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha of Gujarat till 2016. Amit Shah is considered to be the BJP’s chief strategist and close associate of Narendra Modi.
In 2016, he was considered the mastermind of the BJP’s victory in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Gujarat, the party’s modern base. That year, the BJP was able to sit in the masnad of Manipur for the first time since the assembly elections in the relatively small state of Manipur, but the Akali – BJP alliance lost control of the relatively large state of Punjab.
In 2016, the party lost the assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh. The following year, he won 303 seats in the 17th Lok Sabha elections, earning Amit Shah the title of the party’s most successful president.
After being appointed as the Home Minister of India in the second term of the Modi 2.0 government, he took a major decision to remove Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir and make the Jammu and Kashmir union territory of India.
Facts About Amit Shah
- Born: 22 October 1964, Bombay, Maharashtra, India
- Birth Name: Amit Anilchandra Shah
- Nickname: Mota Bhai (Big Brother)
- Height: 5 feet 5 inches (1.68 m)
- Weight: 91 kg (200 lbs)
- Age: 56 year’s old
- Nationality: Indian
- Religion: Hinduism
- Caste: Bania
- Political party: Bharatiya Janata Party
- Education: C.U.Shah Commerce College
- Wife: Sonal Shah (m. 1987)
- Children: Jay Shah (Son)
- Father: Anilchandra Shah
- Mother: Kusumben Shah
- Siblings: Aarthi Shah
- Net Worth: Rs 43 Crore (As of 2021)
Amit Shah Biography
Amit Shah was born on 22 October 1964, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Shah came from a wealthy Gujarati Hindu Vaishnava family, who were Baniyas. His great-grandfather was the Nagarsheth of the state of Manasa. His father Anil Chandra Shah was a businessman in Mansa and established himself in the PVC pipe business.
Although he attended Mehsana School, he went to Ahmedabad to study biochemistry at CU Shah Science College. He started working in his father’s business after graduating in biochemistry. He has worked as a stock market consultant in Ahmedabad and in a cooperative bank there.
He has been associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh since childhood. He was associated with its various organs from his boyhood. He officially joined as its “volunteer” while studying at a college in Ahmedabad.
He met Narendra Modi in 1982 through the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Modi was then the “propagandist” of the RSS and in charge of the youth wing of its city branch.
Personal Life
In 1987, Amit Shah is married to Sonal Shah the couple has only one son name, Jay Shah. Amit Shah cast is Bania. Amit Shah wife Sonal Shah is very supportive of him for all his work.
He is a passionate chess player, chairman of the Gujarat State Chess Association, and, during his ministry in Gujarat, initiated a pilot project to introduce chess lessons at the government schools in Ahmedabad. In 2007, he also became vice-chairman of the Gujarat State Cricket Association (chaired by Narendra Modi).