Wednesday, November 06, 2024
Advertisement
  1. You Are At:
  2. News
  3. Politics
  4. National
  5. At a glance: Educational qualifications of Narendra Modi and his ministers

At a glance: Educational qualifications of Narendra Modi and his ministers

New Delhi: The questions raised over the educational qualifications of HRD minister Smriti Irani have created a big controversy in India. A debate has erupted as to whether ministers need to be highly educated especially in

PTI Updated on: November 27, 2014 10:17 IST

 



Gen VK Singh - Graduate from NDA, MSc in Defence Studies from Madras University in 1983, Master in Strategic Studies from Army War College, Eastern University of Pennsylvania in 2001, Ph.D from Barkatullah University, Bhopal in 2014


General Vijay Kumar Singh is presently Minister of State for External Affairs and Minister of state (independent charge) for North East Region in Modi government.

In2014 elections, he won from Ghaziabad constituency of Uttar Pradesh by defeating  the actor-turned-politician Raj Babbar by a record 567,000 votes.

General V K Singh had served as the 24th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army.

He was the first commando to be promoted to the rank of General and was also the first serving Indian military chief to take the Government of India to court. In 2014, after his retirement from the military, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

 

Advertisement

Read all the Breaking News Live on indiatvnews.com and Get Latest English News & Updates from Politics and National Section

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement