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 '''Amit Shah''' (born 1964) is an [[India]]n politician and the current Home Minister of India. He also served as president of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] from 2014 to 2020.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/amit-shah-bjps-chanakya-who-delivered-modi-wave-2-0/articleshow/69465902.cms | title=Amit Shah: BJP's 'Chanakya' who delivered Modi Wave 2.0 | work=[[The Times of India]] | date=23 May 2019 | accessdate=1 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/elections/lok-sabha-2019/story/amit-shah-bjp-s-chanakya-strategised-modi-wave-2-0-1532943-2019-05-23 | title=Amit Shah: BJP's Chanakya who strategised and delivered Modi wave 2.0 | work=India Today | date=23 May 2019 | accessdate=1 June 2019}}</ref>
+During his college days, Shah was a member of the ABVP, the student wing of the RSS. At the age of 18, he secured a position in the ABVP and joined the BJP in 1987. Shah was first elected in Gujarat as the MLA for a seat partly covering Ahmedabad, Sarkhej in 1997 (a by-election). He continued to hold it in the 1998, 2002 and 2007 elections until the seat's dissolution in 2008; he then got elected from the nearby Naranpura in 2012. As a close associate of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, he held executive portfolios in the Gujarat state government.
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