After Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath for the third consecutive time at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday evening, his trusted confidant Amit Shah was inducted into the Union Cabinet.
President Draupadi Murmu swore in Amit Anilchandra Shah as a minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet.
#WATCH | BJP leader Amit Shah takes oath as a Union Cabinet minister in the PM Narendra Modi-led NDA government pic.twitter.com/UnNXKeJdCY
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Shah was the second minister to be sworn in after Rajnath Singh. The 59-year-old BJP leader and the party’s key strategist served as the Union Home Minister in the previous Modi government.
Shah had won Gujarat’s Gandhinagar seat by a huge margin of 7,44,716 votes. Shah gathered 10,10,972 votes beating Congress’ Sonal Patel who got 2,66,256.
In the 2023 Lok Sabha elections, he won Gujarat’s Gandhinagar seat by a huge margin of 7,44,716 votes. Shah gathered 10,10,972 votes beating Congress’ Sonal Patel who got 2,66,256.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Shah won with a margin of 5,57,014 votes. The seat was previously held by BJP veterans like LK Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
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