Amit Anilchandra Shah
UnverifiedUnion Minister of Home Affairs; MP, Lok Sabha (Gandhinagar) · Bharatiya Janata Party · Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Last updated 16 Aug 2026
Report card
Union Home Minister — May 2019 to present; Minister of Cooperation 2021–2024
Delivered the government's biggest constitutional moves — Article 370, the PFI ban — and the security establishment credits his tenure with sharply reduced insurgency violence. Manipur 2023, with 258 dead and the Supreme Court calling out a breakdown, is the failure the tenure will be judged against.
Big constitutional wins; one catastrophic failure still burning.
Moved the resolution that scrapped Article 370 and bifurcated Jammu & Kashmir into two Union Territories, piloted through Parliament on 5 August 2019.· 5 Aug 2019
The PFI and eight affiliates were banned for five years under UAPA on 28 September 2022, dismantling the organisation's nationwide network after nationwide raids.· 28 Sep 2022
Manipur, May 2023 onward: ethnic violence left 258 people dead (official count, November 2024), over 60,000 displaced and about 4,800 houses burned — under the direct law-and-order remit of the Home Ministry.· 2023–2024
The Supreme Court described an "absolute breakdown of the constitutional machinery" in Manipur (1 August 2023), called police investigations tardy, and had to set up its own monitoring committee under Justice (retired) Gita Mittal — stepping into oversight the ministry itself should have carried.· Aug 2023
Fix this next · Own Manipur before claiming normalcy: FIR timelines, compensation delivery, and CBI trial pace in the transferred cases are measurable — publish the numbers. The court should not have to create the accountability structure the ministry exists to provide.
Updated 16 Aug 2026
Sector scores are delivery assessments derived only from the cited evidence. “Fix this next” is CJP’s recommendation, clearly opinion — the facts above it are not.
Conflicts of interest & family links
Family business interests, relatives in plum posts, policy that touches the family pocket. An entry here is a documented allegation, not a finding of guilt — every entry carries its sources and, where one exists, the leader’s own response.
Son Jay Shah's rise: BCCI Secretary to ICC Chairman
Son — Jay Shah, cricket administrator
Jay Shah became BCCI Secretary in 2019 and was elected unopposed as ICC Chairman — the youngest ever, at 35 — taking office on 1 December 2024, while his father ran the Union Home Ministry. The positions and the timeline are documented fact; CJP lists the entry because the concentration of powerful posts in one family is exactly what this tracker watches. Readers can weigh how far the surname carried the ascent.
- ESPNcricinfo — BCCI secretary Jay Shah to take over as the new ICC chair
- ICC — The Chairman (official structure page)
- Firstpost — Jay Shah officially takes over as ICC chairman
Updated 16 Aug 2026
The Wire's 2017 report on son's company turnover
Son — Jay Shah, Temple Enterprise (the company The Wire reported on)
In October 2017, The Wire reported that the turnover of a company owned by Jay Shah multiplied about 16,000 times in the year after the BJP came to power at the Centre in 2014. The report became a national controversy over the business interests of the ruling party president's son. Jay Shah sued; the litigation has never publicly concluded.
Their response · Jay Shah denied wrongdoing and filed criminal and civil defamation suits against The Wire seeking ₹100 crore. An initial gag order was partially vacated in December 2017, the Supreme Court suggested settlement talks in April 2018, and The Wire — which stood by its story — has not apologised or retracted.
- The Hindu — Civil court partially vacates injunction on The Wire in Jay Shah case
- Scroll — SC asks Jay Shah and The Wire to consider settling civil suit
- Alt News — No, The Wire didn't 'apologise' in the Jay Shah defamation case
Updated 16 Aug 2026
Court cases
Sorted by severity. CJP policy: every case here is traceable to a public source.
Contai Police Station Case No. 34/2019
IPC 500 (defamation), 503 (criminal intimidation), 504 (intentional insult), 427 (mischief), 506 (criminal intimidation), 436 (mischief by fire/explosive), 153A (promoting enmity). Charges NOT framed. Quashing petition filed under CrPC 482 in Calcutta High Court; HC granted injunction against criminal proceedings. FIR by Contai PS, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal.
Updated 29 Jul 2026
CC No. C/7741/2018 — Metropolitan Magistrate, Calcutta
IPC 499 (defamation), 500 (punishment for defamation). Charges framed. Wrongly served summons returned to court; application to withdraw summons pending. 8th Metropolitan Magistrate, Calcutta.
Updated 29 Jul 2026
Nayagaon Police Station Case No. 6547/2015
IPC 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), Section 125 RP Act. No charges framed. Chief Judicial Magistrate / Sub Judge-II, Begusarai, Bihar.
Updated 29 Jul 2026
Profile
- House
- Lok Sabha
- State
- Gujarat
- Portfolios
- Home Affairs, Cooperation (2021–2024)
- Terms
- 1
- First elected
- 2019
- Born
- 1964-10-22
- Age
- 61
- Education
- S.Y. B.Sc. (Second Year B.Sc.), Gujarat College, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad (1981); 10th Pass, Nawrang Secondary School, Nawrangpura, Ahmedabad (1979) — per ECI affidavit; Wikipedia lists BSc in Biochemistry, Gujarat University
- Profession
- Politician
Record in office
Declared finances and hard numbers. Every figure is sourced — follow the link under each one.
Attendance, questions, debates and private member bills are hidden for office holders — ministers do not sign the attendance register or ask starred questions, so a “0” there would be misleading, not bad.
MPLADS data not yet reported for 18th Lok Sabha; Amit Shah's first LS term began 2019.
Updated 29 Jul 2026
Updated 29 Jul 2026
Updated 29 Jul 2026
Three criminal cases declared in the 2024 Lok Sabha affidavit (MyNeta/ADR). Cases include defamation, criminal intimidation, mischief, and election law violations; all pending with charges not yet framed or partially framed.
Updated 02 Aug 2026