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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Amid bilateral tensions over unrest in Kashmir, Home Minister Rajnath Singh will today travel to Pakistan to attend the seventh meeting of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Home/Interior Ministers.
The government today downplayed Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed's threat to Rajnath Singh’s Pakistan visit and said that the Home Minister will travel to Islamabad this week to attend the SAARC Home Ministers' conference as scheduled.
A senior of Assam Civil Services officer was on Saturday suspended by the state government after he was held primarily responsible for a major goof-up when a two-year old world-famous photograph of Bangladesh's Noakhali flood
The flood situation in Assam remained critical with three more persons perishing on Saturday, taking the toll to 29 in the current deluge even as Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh made an aerial survey of
Facing the grim consequences of floods, the victims in Assam have been given a compensation of Rs 4 lakh by the state government, after the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh made an aerial survey of
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who arrived here on Saturday to review the flood situation, went on an aerial survey of flood-affected areas with Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonwal.
Ministry of External Affairs today clarified that Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Islamabad is purely for the SAARC event and there will be no bilateral meetings with Pakistan during his visit next month.
Opposition party today launched a blistering attack on the BJP government at the Centre over an attack on two Muslim women in Madhya Pradesh on the beef issue and alleged that Dalits and Muslims were being ‘increasingly’ targeted.
Armed with clinching evidence following the arrest of Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Saifulla Bahadur Ali in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara, New Delhi is now set to confront Pakistan with the latest proof of the involvement of its
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today welcomed the upcoming Pakistan visit of union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will travel to Pakistan for SAARC Interior and Home Ministers conference on August 3. This will be the first visit by a senior Indian leader to Islamabad following the terror strike on the Pathankot air base.
On the last day of his visit to the valley of Kashmir, Home Minister Rajnath Singh appealed for restoration of peace saying the Centre wants an emotional relationship with the state and not just need-based,
Rajnath, on the second and last day of his visit amid unrest that has left over 45 people dead in the Kashmir Valley, chaired a high-level security meeting and met delegations of political parties.
Jammu and Kashmir’s main opposition party National Conference today asked the Centre to initiate a sustained dialogue with Pakistan as well as separatists groups in the state for evolving a consensus for a mutually acceptable
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad today asked Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to announce during his ongoing Srinagar visit that pellet guns will no longer be used on protestors in Kashmir.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived here on a two-day visit to take stock of the law and order situation in the Valley. He is accompanied by the Directors General (DGs) of Paramilitary, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Indo-Tibetan Border Poli
As violence continue to disrupt Kashmir, Home Minister Rajnath Singh is set to arrive in the valley to review the situation in the state. Today, another civilian protester was killed in a clash with security
New Delhi: Under attack over recent dalit incident in Gujarat, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today rejected the charge that atrocities against the lower caste community had increased in NDA rule and asserted in Rajya Sabha
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today thanked all political parties for being united on the issue of Kashmir. Speaking on the Kashmir unrest in Lok Sabha, Singh once again slammed Pakistan for trying to destabilise the situation in India.
New Delhi: On a day of heated debates over alleged atrocities against Dalits in Gujarat’s Una district, Rahul Gandhi left the Congress party rather embarrassed in Parliament today. The Congress vice-president, who is set to
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