Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Amit Shah

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian politician Amit Shah.
Last updated on December 7, 2024.
Amit Shah

Amit Anil Chandra Shah is an Indian politician currently serving as the Minister of Home Affairs and the first Minister of Co-operation of India. He served as the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2014 to 2020. He has also served as chairman of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) since 2014. He was elected to the lower house of Parliament, Lok Sabha, in the 2019 Indian general elections from Gandhinagar. Earlier, he had been elected as a member of the upper house of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, from Gujarat in 2017. Sworn in at the age of 54, he is the youngest serving full-time Home Minister. He is the chief strategist of the BJP and a close aide to Narendra Modi.

If a candidate at the MLA or chief ministerial level gets an advantage of belonging to a particular caste while fighting polls, that is one thing. But after having been elected, if you only look after the developmental needs of a particular caste or community, that is a different matter altogether. The BJP has never done that.
Kejriwal's only mantra is to tell lies and talk forcefully and repeatedly, but Delhi cannot develop with telling lies.
I have a track record of accepting my party's decisions. I do whatever work is given to me with determination. That's all. — © Amit Shah
I have a track record of accepting my party's decisions. I do whatever work is given to me with determination. That's all.
Remember, our focus should remain on development because it is development alone that can transform this nation as well as the lives of its people.
BJP is ready to go to any extent to protest for the rights of Ayyappa devotees. Beliefs should be respected. Man-woman equality is must, but gender equality cannot be established by giving entry to men and women together. There are several temples that deny men entry.
How can BJP be anti-Bangla when BJP founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee himself was a Bengali?
Modi is marching forward on the basis of the BJP's philosophy.
Instead of minority and majority politics, if we try and give the same rights to all, it is not polarisation. This is the core value of our Constitution.
A lot can be debated about criminal justice and its delivery system.
The BJP's decisions are never based on victory and defeat in elections.
The BJP doesn't believe in vote-bank politics. We believe India is above everything.
After getting into politics, I gave away my business and factory to my partners.
It is the daydreaming of some people who live in a make-believe world who think you can make roads, hospitals, and railways without any social impact! — © Amit Shah
It is the daydreaming of some people who live in a make-believe world who think you can make roads, hospitals, and railways without any social impact!
I have always lived among the people of Gujarat. I know public sentiments.
I have got popularity. BJP workers have given me unmatched love. They admire me so much that I feel humbled.
My target is to expand the BJP's influence everywhere.
So many people are alleging so many things without evidence against Modi. That itself is proof that he is not a dictator.
First, only a stable government can do good for the nation and deliver development. By stable government, I mean one with a full majority. Then, only a strong leader can resolve the problems of the people.
No government in any country can run on static definitions of economic thinking.
The illegal immigrants are like termites. They are eating the grain that should go to the poor; they are taking our jobs.
I have no doubt that the Congress is active in manipulative politics.
Governments can't escape from taking tough steps. One can't be populist about it. You can't flirt with such serious issues like security.
In no religion is beef-eating a part of faith.
I was a booth worker of the BJP. I rose to become the party president.
Don't misjudge my self-confidence.
In political science, public support doesn't have a reverse gear. It always goes forward.
I cannot see Modiji as separate from BJP. Both are the same.
I have never done anything which I feel guilty about or wish I had not done it.
When you relentlessly work, you gradually get accepted.
Irrespective of economic theories, we will take decisions in the larger interest of the poor people.
I do what I want. Everybody does what he likes. What is so unique about it?
All I can say is we will fully utilise our right to self-defence. No one can just do what they want on our borders.
From an organisation point of view, I want the BJP to be the bright national political party in all the states of India and having an impact on social life.
After forming government in 2019, the BJP will undertake a nationwide identification of illegal infiltrators living in the country.
We don't worry about our future because all BJP leaders are accustomed to sit in the opposition. We have spent our life in the opposition.
All parties have one leader at the top who is the first among equals.
No law is permanent or steady. The law is not made of steel. The law is made by Parliament. It goes to the people, to the ground. A lot many suggestions come once it is implemented. So many laws have been amended after receiving people's suggestions.
My image is the creation of media. — © Amit Shah
My image is the creation of media.
My task will remain incomplete until a BJP chief minister is installed in Lucknow.
Modi has always been very particular about law and order. He believes in fairness and justice, and encouraged us to simply work as per law without fear or favour. His ability to think big and implement it on the ground is exemplary. He had a vision of a bank account for every household.
I will not do anything against the basic principles of my party. The Bharatiya Janata Party will function under its declared policy.
A national party cannot win an election riding piggyback on the rebels of the rival party.
What is more important than your son? Still, we send our sons to fight at the borders of the nation. Similarly, for the sake of development of our country, we have to give away our land. Not an inch of land that the government will acquire will go into the hands of industrialists.
This country has moved away from the politics of caste, nepotism, and appeasement.
I believe the BJP should respect each and every political party, and the BJP should evaluate and consider each party's relevance in Indian politics and then formulate its own strategy.
The Modi government's accountability towards the common man can be gauged from the fact that be it Indians trapped overseas, a helpless mother looking for a doctor for her ailing child in a train, or a housewife struggling to get a gas cylinder, help is just a tweet away, with no protocol or red tape intervening.
Since young age, I am in politics.
Polarisation on religious lines for political gains shall not be on the BJP's agenda. — © Amit Shah
Polarisation on religious lines for political gains shall not be on the BJP's agenda.
While staging demonstrations against wrongs, please do not cross the line, and see to it that no situation is allowed to turn into a riot.
Every time I have fought elections, I have improved my victory margins.
Except two or three parties, most parties are dependent on one family. I believe that only parties where internal democracy is alive can achieve the ideals of democracy.
Those who carry out anti-national activities should be put in jail.
In politics, the leaders are supposed to work and work.
This is a country of strong beliefs. Just because some two people say something, people don't bow down.
There is a severe shortage in our country of political parties where internal democracy is alive and kicking.
Kashmir is an integral part of India, and nobody can take it away from us.
In India, given a choice, nobody ever wants to part with land.
Wherever I go, the people respond positively to me; they give me respect.
If BJP and its allies have been chosen by the people in state after state across regions, it is due to the good governance that Modi has successfully implemented and the 'can do' spirit of New India that he resonates.
Millions of infiltrators have entered our country and are eating the country like termites. Should we not uproot them?
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