Tag: Amit Shah

New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday told Union Home Minister Amit Shah that genuine Indians belonging to Bengali, Bihari, Gorkha and Assamese communities were excluded from the NRC in Assam and sought his intervention to ameliorate their miseries. This was conveyed by Banerjee to Shah in her first meeting with the […]

Mumbai: The Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) would not have come into existence had Jawaharlal Nehru not declared untimely ceasefire with the neighbouring country, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday. Targeting Nehru over “non-integration” of Kashmir with India, he said Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the country’s first home minister, should have handled the issue, instead of […]

New Delhi: The 2021 census will be conducted through a mobile phone application, moving away from traditional pen and paper to give Digital India a boost, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Monday. The mammoth nationwide exercise will be carried out in 16 languages and at a cost of Rs 12,000 crore, he said […]

Noida: Yoga guru Ramdev on Tuesday once again launched an attack on the Congress, saying the Gandhi family was behind the imprisonment of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Naming Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi and former party chief Rahul Gandhi in his speech at an event here, Ramdev said the two leaders never wanted Shah […]

Srinagar: There are a total of just 5,000 to 7,000 temples across Jammu and Kashmir, however, the government has reached a figure of 50,000 temples? How, questions the Kashmiri Pandit Sangarsh Samiti. The body representing Kashmiri Pandits living in the valley, who have not migrated after militancy erupted, questioned the figures given by Minister of […]

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday faulted Jawaharlal Nehru’s handling of Jammu and Kashmir, saying approaching the United Nations on the issue was “more than a Himalayan blunder”, and asserted that the entire world has supported the move to abrogate the state’s special status under Article 370. Shah said that there are […]

Beed (Maharashtra): Bharatiya Janata Party President and Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the historic step of uniting the country with the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir, here on Tuesday. “You blessed us with 300 seats (in Lok Sabha), we have scrapped the Article […]

Kaithal: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the Congress should ponder over what “needs to be criticised and what not”. Addressing his first election rally here for the October 21 election for the 90-member Haryana Assembly, Shah ridiculed the criticism of the Congress over ‘Shashtra Pujan’ or worship of weapons of the first […]

Solapur: Issuing a strong warning to Pakistan, Union Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah on Thursday warned that anybody attacking India will have to suffer 10 times more casualties. Addressing whirlwind election rallies in Solapur, Sangli and Osmanabad districts in Maharashtra, Shah said amidst roaring applause: “The whole world has realised […]

Varanasi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that had it not been for Veer Savarkar, India wouldn’t have known the importance of the 1857 Mutiny. “The Mutiny of 1857 would have remained a revolt as the British had called it. It was Veer Savarkar who gave it the name of the first war […]

Lucknow: The 150-year-old Idara-e-Sharia at Firangi Mahali will now tell Muslims in Uttar Pradesh to keep 22 documents required for the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The documents include certificates of inheritance, birth, education, and bank, refugee registration, as well as family ledgers among other identity proofs. Union Home Minister Amit Shah has already said […]

By Ashutosh Mishra Bhubaneswar: For the BJP, which has emerged as the main opposition party in the state, results of the last assembly elections were not upto the leadership’s expectations. Set a goal of 120 plus seats by BJP president, Amit Shah state party leaders had hoped to win at least 50 seats, if not […]

New Delhi: Calling police personnel the “silent sentinels” of the nation and noting the difficult conditions under which they work, Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday assured that the Centre was committed to their holistic welfare over a specific time period. Presiding over a Police Commemoration Day function here, Shah said the forces in India […]

Mumbai: In a huge shock for the Bharatiya Janata Party, its Beed strongwoman and minister Pankaja Munde- for whom both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President and Union Home Minister Amit Shah had campaigned- lost in Parli to her estranged cousin and Nationalist Congress Party’s Leader of Opposition in the Lagislative Council, Dhananjay Munde, […]

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Jannayak Janata Party on Friday sealed the deal for government formation in Haryana. The announcement was made by BJP President Amit Shah in the presence of JJP chief Dushyant Chautala. “The two parties have decided to form the government to respect the mandate of the people. It […]