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Sonal Shah

Sonal Shah is a celebrity wife and family member. Sonal Shah is famous for being the wife of Bharatiya Janata Party’s president, Amit Shah.

Early life

Sonal Shah’s date of birth and age is unknown. The information regarding her early life and family background is also missing. However, she was born in Kolhapur, Maharastra, India. She did her schooling at Princess Padmaraje Girls High School. Further, she follows Hinduism.

Now, talking about her personal life, she married Amit Shah. They together have a son named Jay Shah. Jay married Rishita Patel in the year 2015.

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Caption: Sonal Shah, her family, and Narendra Modi’s picture at her son’s wedding. Source: India

Career

Sonal Shah came into the news after casting her vote with her husband for the 2019 General Election. Her husband, Amit is an Indian politician currently serving as the Minister of Home Affairs. Also, he is the first Minister of cooperation of India. From 2014 to 2020, he served as the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Despite her popularity and fame, she has not received any brand endorsement deals as of now. However, it is possible that shortly, she might start to endorse brands. 

In the 2019 Indian general elections from Gandhinagar, Amit was elected to the lower house of Parliament, Lok Sabha. He had been elected earlier as a member of the upper house of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, from Gujarat in 2017. Moreover, Sworn in at the age of 54, he is the youngest serving full-time Home Minister. Therefore, he is the chief strategist of the BJP and a close aide to Narendra Modi.

While in his college days, Amit was a member of the ABVP, the student wing of the RSS. Similarly, at the age of 18, he secured a position in the ABVP and joined the BJP in 1987. He was first elected in Gujarat as the MLA for a seat partly covering Ahmedabad, Sarkhej in 1997 (a by-election).

However, Amit continued to hold it in the 1998, 2002, and 2007 elections until the seat’s dissolution in 2008. Then, in 2012, he was elected from the nearby Naranpura. Similarly, as a close associate of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, he held executive portfolios in the Gujarat state government.

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Caption: Sonal Shah and Amit Shah while voting. Source: WikiBio

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Further, Amit was the BJP’s in-charge for India’s most significant and politically crucial state, Uttar Pradesh, during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Further, as a result, he rose to national prominence and was appointed as the party’s national president in July 2014.

Since 2014, Amit has played an organizing and membership-promotional role in the elections of many states. Similarly, in his two years, the BJP achieved success in Legislative Assembly elections in Maharashtra, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, and Assam. But, he lost ground in Delhi and the large eastern state of Bihar in 2015.

In the year 2017, he was partly credited with the party victories in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Gujarat, and Manipur. But sadly, the Akali-BJP alliance lost power in the larger Punjab election. In the following year, the party lost power in the states of Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh. After a year, the BJP won 303 seats to get a majority in the 2019 Indian general election under Shah’s leadership.

Body Measurements

Sonal is 5 feet 3 inches and weighs around 70 kilos. Her eyes are black and her hair is dark brown. There is no other information related to her appearance. However, she is healthy.

Sonal Shah – Social Media

Sadly, Sonal Shah is not active on social media platforms. Despite her absence on the platform, Amit Shah is active on many social media platforms. However, his Instagram page has earned more than 3.6 million followers.

Sonal Shah – Net Worth 2024

Coming to earnings, Sonal Shah has not shared her career so there is no information about her net worth or any other earnings. But, Amit Shah surely earns a handful amount of money as a politician.