Amit Shah is an Indian politician and a key strategist of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has served as India’s Minister of Home Affairs since 2019, making him a three-time Home Minister, and has been the country’s first Minister of Cooperation since 2021. Previously, he was the BJP President from 2014 to 2020, playing a crucial role in the party’s electoral successes.
A close aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Shah’s political career began with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its student wing, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). Shah joine the RSS in1982 and the BJP in 1987 and rose up to become a key figure in Gujarat politics. After the 2002 Gujarat assembly elections, he became the youngest minister in then Chief Minister Modi’s cabinet, holding 12 portfolios, including the Ministry of Home. Shah represented the Gujarat Legislative Assembly from Sarkhej (1997–2012) and Naranpura (2012–2017).
In 2017, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat, and in 2019, he was elected to the Lok Sabha from Gandhinagar. He took oath as a Lok Sabha member in June 2024.
Shah has been embroiled in several controversies, including accusations of involvement in extrajudicial killings during his tenure as Gujarat’s Home Minister and his alleged role in illegal surveillance. His handling of the inter-tribe conflict in Manipur, which began in 2023, has attracted criticism, with many questioning the government’s response to the escalating violence and the security situation in the region.
Maharashtra Govt, before it does anythinng else, let it concentrating on governance first instead of corruption. then everything else will fall in place.
Can the print with proof confirm that there is no such infiltration? not possible. so it is better to keep one’s mouth shut.
Amit Shah and every right thinking citizen of this nation believes that the massive illegal immigration from Bangladesh to India over the last 5 decades is a terrible curse for our nation. Not just Mr. Shah, every single Indian should raise their voice against it.
If it ruffles Dhaka, so be it.
Mecca mein baith kar Haj nahin kiya ja sakta. So one cannot really assess how well our state has performed. However, led by Bombay and also other important cities like Poona, the numbers are daunting. The two week lockdown will create more problems than it will solve. A big hit to the economy. The old cycle of migrants leaving, then returning. Bombay contributes so much to the national fisc, all we ask in return is that the ocean breeze keeps riffling through the city.
India is registering 2,00,000 cases a day. 1,000 deaths. Lockdowns are crushing the fragile economic recovery. Inflation is back. One discerns, possibly for the first time, non partisan anger against the government and how it is handling the pandemic. It can not afford to mess up the vaccination drive, our only hope against the coronavirus. 2. Whether India should be importing vaccines or it is possible, through emergency approvals, licensing arrangements to very swiftly scale up domestic production is for the experts to judge. Sputnik V could deliver 850 million doses in a year. Perhaps liberal funding should be made available to SII. The pricing should also be more realistic. One dose of Covishield is worth more than $ 2.
Bangladesh provides India ( potentially ) excellent connectivity to the north east. As a successful developing economy, mutually beneficial opportunities for trade and investment. If its per capita income now exceeds India’s, the asymmetry would be greater in relation to our states that adjoin it. Clearly there are neither push nor pull ( India has long since switched off the afterburners ) factors to fuel large scale illegal immigration. There are memories and there are stereotypes. 2. China is everywhere in South Asia, as India once was in Davos. Bangladesh is smart enough to keep good relations with both Asian giants, is not playing any cards. PM Sheikh Hasina has kept in check elements that are not well disposed towards India. Nothing should be done which makes her task more difficult.