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 More
Leh: Bad weather today forced Rajnath Singh to abandon his helicopter and take a road trip to Dungti, some 200 kms from here on the icy heights of Himalayas, for a night halt at a
Samba (J&K) : In a clear messsage to Pakistan and China, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today asserted that terrorism, infiltration and border transgression must be stopped for improving relations with India.He also said India always
Jammu : Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday indirectly denied reports about deployment of ITBP on the international border between India and Pakistan in Jammu region in addition to the BSF."Indo-TIbetan Border Police (ITBP) is
Jammu : Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived here on Monday on a three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir.Singh is visiting the state to take stock of the situation on the international border in the
India, Pakistan Armies to hold flag meet todayJammu: Armies of India and Pakistan will hold a flag meeting today at Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir to discuss how to bring
Mathura: In the wake of West Bengal government declassifying files on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said decision on files in possession with the Centre would be made soon."Keep
Mathura: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that BJP-led NDA would win the Assembly polls in Bihar and form a government."After election in Bihar, we shall have BJP-led NDA government owing to hard
New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh will undertake a three-day visit to forward areas along the borders with Pakistan and China, including Chumar in eastern Ladakh which saw a fortnight-long stand-off between Indian and Chinese
New Delhi: Defence minister Manohar Parrikar on Sunday met home minister Rajnath Singh, amid the stand-off between Indian and Chinese forces in Ladakh. During the 30-minute meeting, Parrikar and Singh are believed to have discussed
New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who was scheduled to visit forward areas along the borders with Pakistan and China, has postponed the tour citing a key BJP meeting on Bihar.Singh, who was planning to
New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh will next week visit forward areas along the borders with Pakistan and China. During his three-day visit to the forward areas of Jammu and Kashmir beginning Tuesday, he will
Bhopal: Hindi should be included as an official language in the United Nations by garnering support from member nations, as was done for the International Yoga Day, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said here on Saturday.Speaking
Bhopal: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today pushed for making Hindi one of the official languages of the United Nations as he lamented that Hindi could not get its desired place in India probably due
New Delhi: India can be called "more Islamic than Pakistan" as more Muslims live here than that country, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today told the chief of Pakistan Rangers who called on him to discuss
Bhopal: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will take part in the concluding session of 10th Vishwa Hindi Sammelan and the inaugural programme of YN Singh Memorial Foundation lecture series in Bhopal tomorrow.Prime Minister Narendra Modi
New Delhi: India will not fire the first bullet across the border, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday during his meeting with a delegation of Pakistan Rangers led by Maj. Gen. Umar Farooq Burki."The
1. PM Modi to inaugurate 'Vishwa Hindi Sammelan'Bhopal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today inaugurate the three-day 10th Vishwa Hindi Sammelan (World Hindi Conference) in Bhopal."The conference will prove to be a milestone in universalization
Hyderabad: Unable to stomach the country's rapid growth, anti-India forces are conspiring to inflict losses on strategic and critical installations in a bid to weaken its economy, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said here today.Singh said India is counted
1. PM to meet industry leaders on global economic sceneNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today meet business leaders including Reliance Industries head Mukesh Ambani, Tata Group Chairman Cyrus Mistry as well as bankers
New Delhi: With Congress and the Left continuing to oppose the GST Bill, the government on Sunday appealed to the opposition to cooperate to pass the proposed legislation in Parliament but remained non-committal on the issue
Top News
Trending News
Latest News
