Kiren Rijiju is the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader who has been the Union Minister of Earth Sciences and Food Processing Industries in the Narendra Modi Cabinet since 2023 and 2024 respectively. He was also the Minister of Law and Justice from 2021 to 2023, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs and Sports and Minister of State for Minority Affairs from 2019 to 2021. Rijiju was the Minister of State for Home Affairs from 2014 to 2019 in the first Narendra Modi Cabinet. Rijiju won the first Lok Sabha election in 2004 from the Arunachal West constituency when he defeated Arunachal Congress candidate Kamen Ringu with a margin of 47,424 votes. However, he lost the 2009 Lok Sabha polls from the same constituency against Congress candidate Takam Sanjoy by just 1,314 votes. Rijiju left the BJP to join the Congress after his defeat but later returned to the saffron party. Rijiju again won the Arunachal West seat in the 2014 and 2019 elections by defeating Congress candidates Takam Sanjoy and Nabam Tuki respectively. The BJP has again fielded Rijiju from Arunachal West against Congress candidate Nabam Tuki.
Read MoreNew Delhi: Union minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar today said that over 90 per cent of the forest fire that has engulfed large swathes of the state has now been controlled.
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Two crucial files relating to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose will be declassified by Japan this year-end, but the country has given no assurance regarding three more such files in its custody, government said today.
New Delhi: Union minister Kiren Rijiju today accused former Home Minister P Chidambaram of making a “delirious attempt to escape” in the Ishrat Jahan controversy by saying an Under Secretary had signed the second affidavit
The government today said it has not put any pressure on National Investigation Agency (NIA), probing right-wing terror cases including Samjhauta Express and Malegaon blast cases
New Delhi: In the wake of protests in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK), Union minister Kiren Rijiju today said there is no human rights in that region and this had become amply clear on many occasions
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju today termed the meeting between Pakistan JIT, probing Pathankot attack, and Indian investigators ‘very positive’. He said that the visiting side ‘has not contradicted’ the findings of New Delhi in the Pathankot airbase a
New Delhi:Minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday accused Pakistan of “cooking up” stories to defame India and of releasing a “doctored video” in which an arrested Indian ex-naval officer is heard purportedly
New Delhi: The government today accused Pakistan of "cooking up" stories to defame India and of releasing a "doctored video" in which an arrested Indian ex-naval officer is heard purportedly "confessing" to New Delhi`s alleged
Union Home Ministry today said that the law on sedition is under review of the Law Commission and that the panel has been asked to submit the report at the earliest.
New Delhi: The FCRA registration of Greenpeace India was cancelled for alleged violation of laws, including false declaration about foreign contribution, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.Minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju said
New Delhi: Delhi police handled the "anti-national and anti-constitutional" event in Jawaharlal Nehru University professionally, Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju said in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.The minister also backed the police
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh witnessed the maximum number of communal violence incidents and killings in the country last year followed by Bihar and Maharashtra, the Parliament was informed today.Data on this, in a written reply
New Delhi: India is constructing and upgrading roads along the borders with Bangladesh, Pakistan, China and Nepal and plans similar action along the India-Bhutan and India-Myanmar border as well, government told the Lok Sabha today. Minister
New Delhi: Amidst a raging debate on whether the juvenile convict in Nirbhaya gangrape case should have been released, the Centre today said it had opposed his release but the Delhi High Court has ordered
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) did not send any team to Dadri after the lynching of a Muslim man over suspicion of eating beef.Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju told the
New Delhi: The number of communal incidents in the country have declined "substantially" since the NDA government has come to power, the government said in the Lok Sabha today.Responding to a series of supplementaries on
New Delhi: Amidst the ongoing debate over alleged intolerance, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday said former Finance Minister P Chidambaram's statement that banning Salman Rushdie's book 'The Satanic Verses' was a mistake has punctured
New Delhi: In a statement that can trigger a controversy, MoS for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju, said that Muslims from the southern states were attracted more to the ISIS ideology than their north Indian counterparts."It
Jammu/New Delhi: A senior Border Security Force (BSF) officer has said that terror group Islamic State can help push militants into Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistan.Speaking to the media, BSF Inspector General Rakesh Gupta said
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