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.
Read MoreHome Minister Rajnath Singh will undertake a two-day visit to the Kashmir Valley tomorrow during which he will review the situation and may hold talks with cross section of people.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today asked security officials to restore peace and normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir at the earliest.
In the midst of ongoing ‘dialogue war’ between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, the Ministry of Home Affairs has prepared a proposal of Rs 2000 crore for rehabilitation of refugees of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) settled in Jammu and Kashmir.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said that the government is working on strengthening the anti-terror laws and providing legal protection for undercover anti-terror operations.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today reiterated that the current unrest in Kashmir is sponsored by neighbouring Pakistan. Participating in the debate over Kashmir issue in the Rahya Sabha, Singh said, “I have no hesitation in saying that whatever
Pitching for an early start to a dialogue process with people of Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to seize the opportunity created by the unrest to
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday met Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Delhi, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with the Home Minister and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.
Indian journalists, who went to cover the SAARC Home/Interior Ministers conference in Islamabad, were not only denied access to the inaugural function, but were also barred them from standing at the entrance of the venue.
It was actually Pakistan Army that took the lead in convincing Pakistani media not to telecast events at the SAARC meet live or to play them up.
The BJP today condemned the lack of courtesy shown to Indian Home minister Rajnath Singh by Pakistan during his visit to Islamabad to attend the conference of home/interior ministers of SAARCC countries.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who returned to India after attending SAARC Home Ministers conference in Islamabad on Thursday evening, today told the Rajya Sabha that he urged member counties “not to glorify or patronise terrorists”.
On the day Home Minister Rajnath Singh demanded “strongest action” and not “mere strong condemnation”, Pakistan on Thursday arrested a terrorist for alleged involvement in 2008 Mumbai attacks. Sufiyan Zafar, wanted in connecti
After Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s stinging attack at Islamabad for “eulogising of terrorists as martyrs”, his Pakistani counterpart Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan alleged that the violence being committed in Kashmir is "open terrorism".
In a stinging indictment of Pakistan over its efforts to “eulogise terrorists as martyrs”, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said in Islamabad that “mere condemnation of terrorist attacks is not enough”. Speaking a
Pakistan on Thursday blacked out Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s address at SAARC Interior Ministers’ meet in which he gave a stern message to Islamabad on its efforts to eulogise terrorists as martyrs.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today came down heavily on Pakistan for adopting a dual stand on the issue of eliminating terrorism.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh who is in Pakistan to attend the SAARC Interior Ministers' conference, along with his counterparts from the member countries today called on Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will call on Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad today.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today arrived in Pakistan to participate in the SAARC Interior/Home Ministers' meet beginning tomorrow.
As Pakistan accorded Home Minister Rajnath Singh a ‘presidential-level’ security on his visit to the country, activists of various religious and jihadi outfits protested against his visit to Islamabad, accusing him of “killing civilians”
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