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: Home Minister Rajnath Singh held a meeting with senior officials of central intelligence and investigative agencies along with the police of 13 states to discuss the steps for keeping a check on the
New Delhi: Ahead of Republic Day, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, NSA Ajit Doval and other top officials today reviewed the security situation in the country as Delhi and many other places
Greater Noida(UP): India has no reason to distrust Pakistan's assurance that it will take effective action on inputs given about the perpetrators of the Pathankot terror attack, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today. “Pakistan
New Delhi: A life is lost in every four minutes in road accidents in the country, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said as he favoured setting up of a national road safety authority.Participating in the ‘Road
Vijaywada: The NDA government is concentrating on improving rural economy and the overall condition of poor people, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today as he termed 'gram swarajya', or village self-rule, as the ultimate goal
Guwahati: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday assured of all central assistance to the north-eastern states in the wake of an earthquake in Manipur early morning. "The prime minister has asked me to coordinate with
Guwahati: National Disaster Response Force teams have been rushed to earthquake hit areas of North-East early today, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said here as he took stock of the situation.The Home Ministry is actively monitoring
Silchar/Karimganj (Assam): The Centre will not allow any subversive activities by insurgents in Assam and will take strong steps to prevent them, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said "The present government will not allow
New Delhi: Uncertainty prevailed on Saturday night on the number of terrorists killed in the attack on the Pathankot air base, with Home Minister Rajnath Singh withdrawing a tweet putting the number at five."I congratulate
New Delhi: In a cautious reaction to the terror strike in Pathankot, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said any attack will be given a befitting reply even as India wants good relations with Pakistan."Pakistan is
Bengaluru: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said Muslim families in the country are playing a “very important” role in stopping their children from getting hoodwinked by the ideology of the Islamic State (IS) and
Lucknow: Centre has achieved success in containing extremism, terrorism and Maoist activities in the country to a large extent, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today. Singh was laying the foundation stone of Lucknow branch office
Lucknow: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said that global terror outfit Islamic State has failed in its attempts to establish roots in India due to strong family values in the society which act as
Lucknow: Welcoming the surprise meeting between the Indian and Pakistani Prime Ministers in Lahore, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today hailed Narendra Modi as the “harbinger of innovative diplomacy” as he drew parallels between him
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has sought an appointment with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to discuss around 14 Bills "sent" by the Lt Governor to the Ministry of Home Affairs.Kejriwal informed through
New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday paid rich tributes to the troopers who were killed in a BSF plane crash in Delhi.Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju and Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has expressed serious concern over radicalisation of youths through social media and other online forums.Speaking at the annual conference of Directors General of Police and Inspectors General of
New Delhi: Government is sensitive to the problem of crimes against women and children and has strengthened legal and institutional infrastructure to deal with the menace, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today.Inaugurating the Quasquicentennial Ground
New Delhi: No injustice will be allowed to happen to Christians in the country, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday as he asserted that Indian tradition and culture are similar to Christianity. Addressing a Christmas
Ahmedabad: An all-India conference of top police officials, to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will begin tomorrow in Kutch, where among other issues, ways to thwart attempts by IS to spread its base
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