Amit Shah

Amit Shah was born in Mumbai in October 1964 to Anilchandra Shah and Kusumben. He spent his school years in his family’s ancestral village of Mansa in Gujarat before moving to Ahmedabad. His official parliamentary details record study to second-year B.Sc. level at Gujarat University. He is married to Sonal Shah, and the government’s member profile records one son. His public career developed through Gujarat’s political and cooperative institutions.

Shah served in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly between 1997 and 2017. He represented Sarkhej and later Naranpura, winning the latter constituency in 2012. In the state government, he held portfolios that included home affairs, transport, prohibition, parliamentary affairs, law and excise. His wider institutional work included the Gujarat State Financial Corporation and cooperative banking, alongside roles in the state’s cricket and chess organisations.

Shah’s organisational career included work with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad before he held responsibilities in the BJP’s Gujarat unit. He became national treasurer of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha in 1997. In 2013 he was appointed a BJP national general secretary with responsibility for Uttar Pradesh. He became national president of the BJP in July 2014, following the general election that year.

Shah entered the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat in 2017 and moved to the Lok Sabha after winning Gandhinagar in 2019. He assumed charge of the Home Ministry on 1 June 2019. The current portfolio list issued by the Prime Minister’s Office identifies him as Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Cooperation. These national responsibilities followed his earlier service as a state legislator, minister and party organiser.