Rajnath Singh is the senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has been the Defence Minister of India since 2019. Singh also served as the Union Home Minister in the Narendra Modi government from 2014 to 2019. Rajnath Singh was the president of the BJP twice from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2014. He has been a Lok Sabha member from the Lucknow constituency of Uttar Pradesh for the last two terms. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Singh won the Lucknow seat by defeating Congress candidate Rita Bahuguna Joshi with a margin of 2,72,749 votes. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Singh retained the Lucknow constituency by defeating Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Poonam Shatrughan Sinha with a margin of 3,47,302 votes. Rajnath Singh also represented the Ghaziabad parliamentary seat from 2009 to 2014. Singh was the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister from 2000 to 2002 and also won the Haidergarh Assembly constituency twice in 2001 (bypoll) and 2002. He was also a member of Rajya Sabha from 1994 to 2001 and again from 2002 to 2008. Singh also served as the Union Cabinet Minister for Agriculture (2003-2004) and Road Transport and Highways (1999-2000) in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government. Rajnath Singh is again contesting from the Lucknow constituency in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
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Speaking at the Chanakya Defence Dialogue here, the Defence Minister said both countries have been involved in talks both at diplomatic and military levels in order to resolve their differences in certain areas along the LAC.
The new nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine was launched after the Cabinet Committee of Security (CCS) approved the construction of two such submarines on October 9.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will lay the foundation stone today for a VLF radar station in Telangana, a key project for national security amid ecological concerns.
Rajnath Singh celebrated Vijaya Dashami with Army jawans in Darjeeling. He also performed Shastra Puja. The Union minister also applied tilak on the forehead of the jawans.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh also performed Shastra Puja at Sukna Cantt in Darjeeling, West Bengal on Vijaya Dashami and celebrated the festival with Army jawans.
Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will address the Army Commanders’ Conference in Gangtok today, focusing on border security and emerging national security challenges, particularly along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.
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The missiles have been under development for the last few years and are expected to meet the critical requirements of the forces to tackle enemy aircraft, drones and other aerial targets at short ranges.
On September 28, 2016, the Indian Army launched surgical strikes against terrorist camps in PoK in response to an attack by terrorists on an army base in Jammu and Kashmir's Uri.
In response to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge's controversial statement about staying alive until PM Modi is removed from power, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh remarked that he prays for Kharge to live for 125 years and for PM Modi to remain Prime Minister for 125 years. This exchange took pl
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that Centre provided package to Jammu and Kashmir for development which was far more than what Pakistan sought from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He also said that while India spends money in J-K for development, Pakistan misuses bailout money.
During a campaign rally in Jammu and Kashmir, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh slammed the Congress-NC alliance and PDP over their calls to restore Article 370, asserting that the BJP will not allow its reinstatement.
The DRDO and Indian Navy successfully tested the Vertical Launch Short Range Surface-to-Air Missile (VL-SRSAM) from Odisha's Chandipur. The missile from a land-based vertical launcher intercepted a high-speed aerial target, validating key features like the Proximity Fuse and Seeker.
Rahul Gandhi in his controversial speech in Herndon, Virginia, said that the fight in India is about whether a person, as a Sikh, is going to be allowed to wear a turban in India and would be able to visit a Gurdwara.
Amit Shah added Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's statement lays bare the Congress's politics of causing rifts on the lines of regionalism, religion, and linguistic differences.
Addressing a rally in Jammu, Singh said that an affidavit was filed by the additional solicitor general in Pakistan claiming "PoK is a foreign land". "I want to tell PoK residents that Pakistan is considering you foreigner but the people in India do not consider you as such," he said.
J-K Assembly polls 2024: Omar Abdullah has sparked a political row after he said that the execution of Afzal Guru, convicted in the 2001 Parliament attack, did not serve any purpose.
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The DAC chaired by Rajnath Singh has approved 10 capital acquisition proposals worth Rs 1.45 lakh crore to enhance defence preparedness.
The INS Arighaat is India's second Arihant-class nuclear-powered submarine and will support the existing INS Arihant that was inducted in 2009. India planes to induct a third Arihant-class submarine soon and aims to build at least five of such nuclear submersibles.
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