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Rajnath Singh

Rajnath Singh

Height: 1.75 m DOB: July 10, 1951

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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Should have fielded Muslim candidates in UP, says Rajnath Singh

Politics | Feb 24, 2017, 06:21 PM IST

Muslims are not considered the traditional vote bank of the BJP, thus the party has not given ticket to even a single Muslim candidate in Uttar Pradesh which has some 19 per cent population. But senior party leader and Union Home Minister Rajnath Sin

Alleged migration in Kairana is one of the biggest issues

Kairana not a Hindu-Muslim issue, don't know meaning of love jihad: Rajnath Singh

Politics | Feb 16, 2017, 08:54 PM IST

Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said he does not recognise alleged migration in Kairana as a Hindu-Muslim issue and showed ignorance for the term love jihad.

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Controversy over PM Modi's 'raincoat' jibe unjustified: Rajnath Singh

Politics | Feb 10, 2017, 03:09 PM IST

Union Home minister Rajnath Singh today slammed the Congress party for protesting over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘raincoat’ remark targeting former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

BSP fighting ‘lost battle’, SP-Congress alliance

BSP fighting ‘lost battle’, SP-Congress alliance ‘opportunist’: Rajnath Singh

Politics | Feb 10, 2017, 01:42 PM IST

Predicting doom for the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Union Home minister Rajnath Singh today said Mayawati's party was fighting a "lost battle," and termed the SP-Congress alliance as "opportunistic".

HM Rajnath Singh seeks report on earthquake, NDRF put on

Rajnath Singh seeks report on earthquake, NDRF put on high alert

India | Feb 07, 2017, 08:22 AM IST

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has sought a detailed report on earthquake that hit parts of northern India late Monday night.

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‘Acche din’ will come in UP after BSP, SP are wiped out, says Rajnath Singh

Politics | Feb 04, 2017, 04:39 PM IST

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today attacked the Samajwadi Party and the BSP for frequently questioning when 'achche din', promised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in campaigning for 2014 elections, will come.

‘No guarantee that there won’t be surgical strike in

‘No guarantee that there won’t be surgical strike in future’, Rajnath Singh warns Pakistan

Politics | Feb 04, 2017, 07:12 AM IST

Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday made it clear that there is no guarantee that surgical strikes won’t happen in future as any such action will depend on the situation prevailing at that time.

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Rajnath Singh accuses Pakistan of supplying drugs to Punjab, warns of dire consequences

Politics | Jan 24, 2017, 06:46 PM IST

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today accused Pakistan of supplying drugs in Punjab and warned Islamabad of dire consequences if it failed to mend its ways.

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As rebellion simmers in BJP, Rajnath Singh's son denies allegations of dynasty politics

Politics | Jan 23, 2017, 05:01 PM IST

Pankaj Singh, who has been given a BJP ticket from Noida for the upcoming UP Assembly polls, today asserted that he had not been given the opportunity because of his father and Home minister Rajnath

BJP’s second list of candidates fields Rajnath's son from

UP polls: BJP’s second list of candidates fields Rajnath's son

Politics | Jan 22, 2017, 09:04 PM IST

The BJP today released its second list of 155 candidates for the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. The list fields for Home Minister Rajnath Singh's son Pankaj Singh from Noida. The Bharatiya Janata Party candidates were

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Maoists planning to target PM Modi, Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah during election rallies: Report

Politics | Jan 21, 2017, 12:21 PM IST

Intelligence agencies have warned that Maoists and several other groups may target Prime Minister Narendra Modi during elections rallies in five states that are going to polls from next month.

People protesting against ban on Jallikattu in Chennai

Rajnath Singh assures action on promulgation of Jallikattu ordinance

Politics | Jan 20, 2017, 02:34 PM IST

A delegation of AIADMK MPs from Tamil Nadu today met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to press for their demand to promulgate an ordinance to allow the conduct of Jallikattu, the controversial bull-taming sport held near the Pongal festival.

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‘He was to be court-martialed in 2010’: BSF questions soldier’s intentions

India | Jan 10, 2017, 06:57 PM IST

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has sought a report from the BSF and ordered appropriate action after a soldier, identified as Tej Bahadur Yadav, in several video clips, claimed that troops are served with bad quality food and even sometimes they s

Home Minister Rajnath Singh sought report after BSF jawan's

BSF jawan says troops at LoC served bad quality food, Rajnath Singh orders action

India | Jan 10, 2017, 12:09 AM IST

Rajnath Singh ordered appropriate action after a BSF jawan, deployed along the Indo-Pak border in Jammu and Kashmir, alleged that troops are facing"cruelty as they are served bad quality food.

Samajwadi Party infighting ‘a cause of concern’,

Samajwadi Party infighting ‘a cause of concern’, affecting UP: Rajnath Singh

Politics | Jan 09, 2017, 06:43 AM IST

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said the infighting in Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party was "a cause for concern" as it affected the state.

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Protecting women's modesty duty of state govt: Rajnath Singh

Politics | Jan 04, 2017, 02:48 PM IST

Amid widespread outrage over the Bengaluru mass molestation, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that protecting the modesty of women is the duty of the state government. He was responding to questions by journalists who

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Don't like feud in any family: Rajnath Singh on Mulayam-Akhilesh battle

Politics | Jan 03, 2017, 07:07 PM IST

With the battle between Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav over control of Samajwadi Party reaching extreme levels, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said he does not like when members of

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60 pc drop in Naxal activities post demonetisation, says Rajnath Singh

Politics | Jan 03, 2017, 03:39 PM IST

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said that there has been a sharp drop in the activities of Naxals since the government’s decision to scrap high-denomination currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000.

Home Ministry, Rajnath Singh, Delhi Police

Proposal to add 15,000 men to Delhi Police gets Home Ministry nod

India | Dec 31, 2016, 07:01 PM IST

The Home Ministry has cleared a proposal to add 15,000 more personnel to the Delhi Police. The proposal has now been sent to Finance Ministry for final approval, Home Minister Rajnath Singh informed today. Terming

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Rajnath’s threat to divide Pakistan violates diplomatic norms: Pak Foreign Office

World | Dec 16, 2016, 02:39 PM IST

Reacting to Indian Home minister Rajnath Singh’s statement that Pakistan would split into 10 pieces if it failed to check cross-border terrorism, Pakistani Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday said that his threat violated diplomatic norms.

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