Amit Shah is the Union home minister of the current government. A close associate of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah was the party president before JP Nadda. Born on October 22 in 1964, Amit Shah's entry into politics was through ABVP, the student wing of the RSS, in Gujarat. In 1987, Amit Shah joined the BJP and was first elected to Gujarat Assembly in 1997. In Narendra Modi's cabinet in Gujarat, Amit Shah held multiple portfolios. In 2002, he was the youngest minister in the Modi cabinet. Amit Shah played a major organisational role in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Amit Shah said a security-centric strategy, infrastructure push , and disruption of Maoist financial networks have yielded results in the fight against Left-Wing Extremism (X/AmitShah)
The NIA had framed charges against two terror operatives Nisar Ahmed alias Haji Nisar and Mushtaq Hussain alias Chacha for providing logistical support to the Pakistani terrorists. The terrorists had carried out indiscriminate fire in the village on January 1 evening around 7.15 pm and had planted a timer fitted with an IED before fleeing. (HT File)
