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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New Delhi: With Delhi staring at a "water crisis" due to the Jat stir in neighbouring Haryana, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Water Minister Kapil Mishra tonight took up the matter with Union Home
Vishakhapatnam: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday reviewed the Maoist situation in Andhra Pradesh and assured the state of all possible help from the Centre.At a meeting with senior officials, he said the Left-wing extremism
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and took up with him the situation in Jawaharlal Nehru University in the wake of the arrest of its students' union
New Delhi: Delhi Police today registered a First Information Report (FIR) against some lawyers over thrashing of journalists at a court here on Monday."We have registered an FIR in connection with the incident that occurred
New Delhi: Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed has rubbished allegations from India about his role in the event organised at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) to mark the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.In a video
Lahore: JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed today rejected claims by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh that he had supported the event in JNU in memory of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru."The India home minister has
New Delhi: Justifying the arrest of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar, Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi today claimed that he had raised anti-national slogans during the controversial event in the campus but said police have
Ambala: Congress MP Kumari Selja today said her party would raise the issue of the ongoing unrest on the JNU campus in Parliament and demanded that a high-level probe be conducted into the matter.Talking to
New Delhi: A day after Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that protest at JNU had backing of LeT chief Hafiz Saeed, the principal opposition party, Congress, today accused the Union Minister of ‘communalising' the issue
New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh's statement that the JNU event had received "support" from terror outfit LeT founder Hafiz Saeed was based on inputs from "different agencies", a Home Ministry spokesperson said today."Statement of
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that the programme at Jawaharlal Nehru University where ‘anti-national' slogans were allegedly raised during an event for parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, had the full
New Delhi: A day after condemning JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar's arrest, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, CPI leader D Raja and JD(U) leader KC Tyagi today met Home Ministry Rajnath Singh to discuss the issue.Speaking
New Delhi: Stating that the government would not tolerate any anti-national activity in the country, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said stringent action will be taken against the demonstrators who raised 'anti-national' slogans at
Thiruvananthapuram: Union Home minister Rajnath Singh today asked the Congress, Left and other opposition parties if they were prepared to apologise to the nation for their "malicious campaign" against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the
New Delhi: Delhi mayors today met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and sought his "intervention" in getting their "rightful" share of funds under Delhi Finance Commission (DFC) recommendations from the AAP government.The delegation led by
New Delhi: The Budget Session of Parliament will commence on February 23 that will focus largely on the financial business of the government, which will present the general budget on Feb 29.But there will be
Jaipur: Home Minister Rajnath Singh today held Pakistan responsible for most of the terror attacks striking India but said it would stand by the neighbour if it takes action against terrorists operating from there.Speaking at the second edition
New Delhi: Amidst increasing attempts by ISIS to lure Indians into its fold, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today held a meeting with top Muslim clerics and sought their cooperation to check the growing tentacles of
New Delhi: The Budget session of Parliament is likely to begin on February 23 as the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs headed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh meets here on February 4 to finalise the
Kolkata: Home Minister Rajnath Singh today launched a scathing attack on the Trinamool Congress (TMC)-led West Bengal government in the state over the recent incident of mob violence in Malda, flaying the government for failing
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