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Shah targets Rahul, says Medha Patkar's presence in Yatra insult to Gujarat

Union Home Minister and BJP MP Amit Shah on Wednesday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's gesture of taking along anti-Narmada activist Medha Patkar during his Bharat Jodo Yatra is the "biggest insult" meted out to Gujarat's people by the Opposition party. He was addressing a poll rally in Jasdan town in Rajkot district in support of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Kunvarji Bavalia for the next month's Gujarat Assembly elections. Voting on Jasdan and 88 other seats will be held on December 1 in the first phase of the two-phase polls. "Medha Patkar, who had stalled the Narmada dam project through litigation, is now walking with Congress' prince Rahul Gandhi. The party owes an answer to the people. This is akin to sprinkling salt on the wounds of the people of Gujarat," the Gandhinagar MP said. The official handle of Bharat Jodo' had tweeted a photo of Patkar with Gandhi when the Yatra was in Maharashtra, along with a caption, When you do something for the society, people ...

Congress left no stone unturned to insult Sardar Patel, says Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday alleged that the Congress did everything possible to "insult" Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and it has started praising him only now in view of the Gujarat Assembly elections. Even the last rites of the country's first deputy prime minister were performed in "unceremonious" way, the BJP leader said at an election rally at Khambhat in Gujarat's Anand district. "I am surprised that the Congress now praises Sardar Patel. Since my childhood, I have never heard any Congress leader talking about Patel. Instead, they left no stone unturned to insult Patel, right from performing his last rites in an unceremonious manner to ensuring that no monument was built in his memory," Shah said. Voting for Khambhat and 92 other seats will take place on December 5, in the second phase of the Assembly elections. Shah further said that it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi who paid a real tribute to Patel by constructing the Statue of Unity, Patel's statue which is .

Jolt to Telangana Congress as senior leader Shashidhar Reddy quits

Former Minister Marri Shashidhar Reddy resigned from the Congress, four days after the party expelled him for six years following his meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah

Gujarat Elections 2022: Tribal community stands with BJP, says Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the tribal comunities in the country stand firmly with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

LIVE news: Finance Minister to begin pre-budget consultations from Monday

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Amit Shah to hold two public meetings in Gujarat today ahead of polls

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will hold two public meetings in Tapi and Narmada districts of the state today ahead of the Gujarat assembly elections slated next month

LIVE updates: PM Narendra Modi holds roadshow in Gujarat's Vapi

PM Modi is scheduled to hold rallies in Gujarat's Saurashtra for three consecutive days from Nov 20 to Nov 22. Stay tuned for LIVE updates

FATF chief, ministers of Nigeria, Ethiopia hold bilateral meet Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday held a number of bilateral meetings, including with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) chief, and discussed with them various issues of mutual interests such as terrorism. In his meeting with FATF chief T Raja Kumar, Shah emphasised that there is need for the FATF to continuously monitor the tendencies of some countries to sponsor terrorism. "In the bilateral meeting with FATF President, Shri T Raja Kumar, Hon'ble Home Minister Shri @AmitShah while appreciating the role of FATF, emphasised that there is need for FATF to continuously monitor the tendencies of some of the countries to sponsor terrorism," Shah's office tweeted. The FATF president lauded the initiative taken by India for hosting 'No Money For Terror (NMFT)' conference and expressed the willingness of FATF to work closely for working on Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) issues under India's G-20 priorities. At the conference, Kumar also calle

Use of cryptocurrency, virtual assets new ways to radicalise youth: Shah

Home Minister Amit Shah highlighted the use of 'darknet' by terrorists and said there is a need to find solutions to the darknet patterns

Terrorism should not be linked to any religion, nationality or group: Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah Friday said financing of terrorism is more dangerous than terrorism the threat of which cannot and should not be linked to any religion, nationality or group. He also said that terrorists are constantly finding new ways to carry out violence, radicalise youth and raise financial resources and the darknet is being used by terrorists to spread radical content and conceal their identities. "Terrorism is, undoubtedly, the most serious threat to global peace and security. But I believe that the financing of terrorism is more dangerous than terrorism itself because the 'means and methods' of terrorism are nurtured from such funding. "Furthermore, financing of terrorism weakens the economy of countries of the world," Shah said addressing the third 'No Money for Terror Ministerial Conference on Counter-Terrorism Financing' hosted by the Ministry of Home Affairs here. He said, "we also recognise that the threat of terrorism cannot and should not be linked to an

BJP uprooted appeasement politics, established rule of law, says Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the BJP ended "appeasement politics" and established the rule of law in Gujarat during its 27-year rule and slammed Congress on various issues. Shah alleged the Congress used to mock Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its cadres over the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya and asked Rahul Gandhi to visit the temple, which he said will be ready for inauguration in January 2024. Shah was speaking at an election rally in support of Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, the BJP's candidate from the Ghatlodia seat in Ahmedabad city. After the rally, Shah and Patel led a roadshow up to the Sola area where Patel submitted his nomination papers for the next month's elections to authorities. Gujarat is scheduled to vote in two phases on December 1 and 5. The counting of votes will be taken up on December 8. The BJP is eyeing a seventh straight term in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah, where a triangular ..

Gujarat: Amit Shah, CM Bhupendra Patel hold roadshow in Ghatlodiya

The leadership of PM Modi and CM Patel is giving pace to development work. Gujarat's law and order situation has improved, state's economy has grown: Amit Shah

BJP will break all records, confident of forming govt in Gujarat: Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah exuded confidence in the BJP forming government in the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections and said that the party will break all records and win again

If BJP wins majority, Bhupendra Patel will be CM of Gujarat again: Shah

Bhupendra Patel will remain the chief minister of Gujarat if BJP secures a majority in the next month's Assembly elections, senior party leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Monday. Shah's statement makes it clear that Patel is the chief ministerial candidate of the BJP, which is eyeing the seventh consecutive term in the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah. "If BJP gets a majority in Gujarat, Bhupendra Patel will be the next chief minister," Shah told CNN-News18 here. Patel replaced Vijay Rupani as the chief minister in September 2021, a move that surprised many. He is the first-time MLA from the Ghatlodia constituency. He is renominated from the same seat. Earlier, Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party had declared party leader Isudan Gadhvi as the chief ministerial candidate after conducting a "public survey". Congress has decided not to declare the CM face for the elections. Voting for the total of 182 seats in Gujarat will be held in two phases on

Take steps to make Tamil official in Central govt offices: TN Minister

Tamil Nadu Minister for Higher Education K Ponmudy on Sunday appealed to Union Home Minister Amit Shah to take steps to make Tamil official language in Central government offices and also allot funds for its development on par with Sanskrit. The appeal comes in the backdrop of the Union Minister requesting the Tamil Nadu government to impart technical education in Tamil on Saturday. "I urge him (Union Home Minister) that Tamil be made a compulsory language in the Central government-run Kendriya Vidyalaya Schools and also fill up posts of Tamil professors in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, which have been vacant for several years," Ponmudy said in a statement here. Responding to Shah's request to impart technical education in Tamil, Ponmudy said such an initiative was already implemented by the DMK in the State 12 years ago. "Kalaignar (the late chief minister M Karunanidhi) already implemented it in 2010 during the DMK regime. Tamil Nadu became the first State in the country to ..

Assembly elections 2022: Nadda, Shah hold meeting with Gujarat BJP leaders

BJP president J P Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday held a meeting here with party leaders from Gujarat to deliberate upon the candidates for upcoming assembly polls in the state. Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupender Patel, Union ministers Manuskh Mandaviya and Parshottam Rupala and BJP's state unit president C R Patil were present in the meeting organised at the Nadda's residence. Besides, BJP's national general secretary (organisation) B L Santhosh and Gujarat unit's general secretary (organisation) Ratnakar also attended the meeting. On Monday, a marathon meeting was held at Shah's residence which was attended by BJP leaders from Gujarat. The assembly elections in Gujarat are scheduled to be held in two phases -- December 1 and 5.

Shah highlights PM Modi's efforts to boost drinking water supply in Gujarat

Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday shared a short video to highlight Prime Minister Narendra Modi's efforts to augment water supply in Gujarat, saying the state suffered from water crisis 21 years ago, but every household is now receiving it through taps. Every countryman, especially the young generation in Gujarat, must watch the video that highlights Modi's "foresight and hardwork" in dealing with the state's water crisis, he said on Twitter. The video says the water table in the state had plummeted to 200 metre in 2001, the year Modi took over as its chief minister, from 30 metre in 1975, with its dry and arid area increasing. Through various schemes, the then state government under Modi built a network of canals spanning across 1,126 km and supplied piped water to households while height of the Narmada dam was raised to 138.68 metre, it says. Modi was Gujarat chief minister from 2001-14 before becoming the prime minister. Assembly polls in the state are scheduled to be held on

Mind our languages: Govt should avoid imposing Hindi

Seeking to impose a uniform language on the country is the surest way to encourage discord

Gujarat Assembly elections to be held in 2 phases, results on Dec 8

EC rubbishes Opposition parties' charge that it delayed announcing dates

Amit Shah chairs meeting in Gandhinagar ahead of Gujarat state polls

Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah on Thursday chaired a meeting with party leaders in the state's capital, Gandhinagar ahead of the Gujarat Assembly Elections