Amit Shah (politician)

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Amit Shah (2015)

Amit Shah (also known as Amit-Bhai Shah , Gujarati અમિત શાહ , born October 22, 1964 in Bombay (now Mumbai ), India ) is an Indian politician. Since July 2014 he has been party president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and since May 31, 2019 Interior Minister of India in the Modi II cabinet .

biography

Shah was born in Bombay to Kusumben and Anilchandra Shah. His parents came from the wealthy Gujarati merchant class of Bombay, which historically contributed a lot to the rise of the city as a trading metropolis. When he was 16 years old the family moved to Ahmedabad , Gujarat . There the young Amit joined the Hindu nationalist cadre organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and was initially active in the RSS student organization Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad . In 1984/85 he became a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Amit Shah studied for some time at the CU Shah Science College in Ahmedabad, where he received a degree in biochemistry . At the same time and afterwards, he briefly worked in his father's business, which dealt with PVC pipes, but quickly left it and switched entirely to politics.

He rose in the following years in the party hierarchy of the BJP in Gujarat and proved to be a skillful organizer, who was promoted by party greats such as Lal Krishna Advani . He was part of the close team around the future Chief Minister of Gujarat and Prime Minister Narendra Modi .

In the elections to the parliament of Gujarat he won a parliamentary mandate in a by-election in 1997 for the first time in the constituency 64-Sarkhej and was able to maintain this constituency with large majorities in the following elections in 1998, 2002 and 2007. In the 2012 election, he won the constituency 45-Naranpura . After the election of the BJP under Modi in Gujarat, Shah received the Ministry of Interior, Transportation and Prohibition . After the 2007 election, his portfolio was expanded to include responsibilities for parliamentary affairs and the judiciary. Shah's further political rise paralleled that of Narendra Modi. In the run-up to the Indian general election in 2014, in which Modi was the BJP's top candidate, Shah became the BJP's general secretary. The BJP's landslide victory in the most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, where the BJP won 71 of the 80 constituencies, was largely attributed to his organizational work. In the previous election there were only 10 constituencies.

On July 9, 2014, Shah was elected BJP party president. On January 24, 2016, he was re-elected to this office for a further three years without opposing candidates.

On August 9, 2017, Shah was elected as a delegate of the state of Gujarat to the Rajya Sabha , the "house of states " of the Indian parliament .

After the parliamentary elections in 2019 , which were successful for the BJP , Amit Shah became Minister of the Interior in the Modi II cabinet on May 31, 2019 .

Controversy

In 2010 Shah was detained for three months at the behest of India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He was charged with participating in the alleged extra-legal targeted killing of Sohrabuddin Anwarhussain Sheikh, who died in police custody on November 26, 2005, as acting interior minister of Gujarat. Sheikh, a notorious criminal, was involved in cases of arms smuggling, extortion of protection money, etc. and was also said to have links to terrorist groups in Pakistan. Other people around Sheikh also died under uncertain circumstances. Given the circumstances, investigative journalists spoke of a police staged confrontation with targeted killing (“staged encounter”). Bribes from the people extorted by Sheikh - marble traders from Rajasthan - flowed to the police. Several police officers were sentenced to prison terms, but Amit Shah was not found to be directly linked to the case and he was acquitted by the Supreme Court on December 30, 2014 .

In October 2017, the Indian news portal The Wire published a report according to which the company of Jay Amit Shah, the son of Amit Shah, has seen an enormous upswing since the election of the BJP as ruling party in 2014 and the promotion of his father to party president. Within a year, the company's turnover is said to have increased sixteen thousand times and its profits from 50,000 rupees to 800 million rupees. Jay Amit Shah sued The Wire for libel for an amount of one billion rupees.

Private

Amit Shah is married and has a son, Jay, with his wife Sonal. He is a passionate chess player , chairman of the Gujarat State Chess Association and initiated the introduction of chess lessons in the government schools of Ahmedabad in a pilot project during his ministerial time in Gujarat. In 2007 he also became vice-chairman of the Gujarat State Cricket Association (chaired by Narendra Modi).

Web links

Commons : Amit Shah  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hindi भाई Bhai : "Brother"
  2. ↑ Poornima Joshi: The Organizer - Amit Shah takes charge. The Caravan Magazine, April 1, 2014, accessed September 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Introduction. Retrieved September 18, 2017 (English).
  4. ↑ PR Ramesh: His masters at least. OPEN Magazine, April 11, 2014, accessed on September 18, 2017 (English).
  5. ^ Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on September 18, 2017 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  6. ↑ Darshan Desai: Modi's top lieutenant Amit Shah made new BJP President. Daily Mail, July 9, 2014, accessed September 18, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Nistula Hebba: Amit Shah re-elected BJP president. The Hindu, December 23, 2016, accessed September 18, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Maulik Pathak: Ahmed Patel retains Rajya Sabha seat in Gujarat, Amit Shah becomes MP for the 1st time. livemint.com, August 9, 2017, accessed September 18, 2017 .
  9. ^ HC grants bail to Amit Shah. The Economic Times, October 30, 2010, accessed September 18, 2017 .
  10. ↑ The journalist who cracked Gujarat fake encounter case. rediff.com, April 25, 2007, accessed September 18, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Sohrabuddin case: Traders claim senior cops extorted money. The Times of India, July 25, 2010, accessed September 18, 2017 .
  12. ^ Rashmi Rajput: Amit Shah discharged, court finds no evidence. The Hindu, December 31, 2014, accessed September 18, 2017 .
  13. ^ Rohini Singh: The Golden Touch of Jay Amit Shah. thewire.in, October 8, 2017, accessed on August 5, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Jay Shah files criminal defamation case against 'The Wire'. The Economic Times, October 9, 2017, accessed August 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Shah, Amit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bombay, now Mumbai , India