Amitbhai Anilchandra Shah was born in Mumbai to a Gujarati Hindu family. His father was a businessman from Mansa with a PVC pipe business.

Shah began his political involvement with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), participating in local branches as a boy. During his college years in Ahmedabad, he formally became an RSS volunteer.

Shah started his political career by joining the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He met Narendra Modi, who advised him to join the student wing of the RSS, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).

Amit Shah joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the RSS.

Shah joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Shah became an activist of the BJP's youth wing, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM).

Shah served as the election campaign manager for Lal Krishna Advani in Gandhinagar during the Lok Sabha elections.

Amit Shah was elected as MLA in Gujarat Legislative Assembly by-election in Sarkhej.

Shah retained his seat in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly elections.

Shah was elected as the president of the Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank (ADCB).

Shah contested and won the Assembly election from the Sarkhej constituency in Ahmedabad with 158,036 votes.

After winning the 2002 elections, Shah became the youngest minister in the Modi government and was given multiple portfolios.

Shah piloted the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime (Amendment) Bill through the Gujarat State Assembly amid an opposition walk-out.

Shah became the vice-president of the Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA), while Modi served as its president.

Shah was accused of having orchestrated the extrajudicial killings of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, his wife Kauser Bi and his criminal associate Tulsiram Prajapati.

Shah was forcibly exiled from Gujarat from 2010 to 2012.

Shah's mother died from an illness.

Shah was arrested in connection with the Sohrabuddin case.

The Gujarat High Court granted Shah bail three months after his arrest in Sohrabuddin case.

Shah contested and won the Assembly election from the Naranpura constituency.

Shah was granted bail by the Supreme Court and allowed him to return to Gujarat.

Shah was appointed as a BJP general secretary and given charge of Uttar Pradesh (UP).

Shah was accused of having ordered illegal surveillance on a woman during his tenure as a home minister.

The BJP and its allies won 73 out of 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, where Shah was the in-charge.

Shah was effectively discharged from the Sohrabuddin case by a special CBI court noting a lack of evidence and political undertones to the accusations.

Shah became the president of GCA after Modi became Prime Minister of India.

The BJP's central parliamentary board unanimously approved Shah's appointment as president of the party.

BJP had claimed 100 million members.

Shah was re-elected as the party's president unanimously.

Shah spearheaded campaigning in the 2017 assembly elections, which resulted in the party's success in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

The BJP won the 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly polls for a record six times and wrested power from Congress during the 2017 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly polls.

The BJP won for the first time in the left-ruled north-eastern state of Tripura.

Shah led the BJP to victory in the Indian general election and became the most successful BJP president.

Shah took oath as Cabinet Minister and took office as Minister of Home Affairs.

Shah moved a resolution to scrap Article 370 in the Rajya Sabha and divide the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories.

Shah declared in the Rajya Sabha of the Indian parliament that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) would be implemented throughout the country.

He introduced the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, which grants Indian citizenship to religiously persecuted minority communities who migrated to the country before 2015 from the Muslim-majority countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

Shah tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted to the hospital.

Shah stated that the central government would contemplate the possibility of repealing the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in Jammu and Kashmir.